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I've got a used bass that I've been planning on fixing up. It is made from a 18" x 24" Keller shell. It is currently disassembled with the tacks taken out (The old ones lost their brass plating. I...

In 1812, Charles Stewart Ashworth, "Leader of the Marine band of music Washington City" published a drum and fife manual.

In 1853, George D. Klinehanse, also of Washington, D.C., published "The...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home was first published in 1863. I think it was wildly popular, at least with civilians, from 1863 to 1865. Goober Peas was first published in 1866, so you may be right...

I make and occasionally sell drums. You can see some of the drums I have made at

drumandfife.blogspot.com

All the drums on the blog were made with 1/8" solid ash or maple steam-bent into a...

I have several 40+ foot sections of 3/16" (5mm) genuine hemp rope. The rope has 4 strands and is hand laid in the USA from imported hemp. This is not manila or sisal rope but genuine hemp.

Each...

The black plastic fife is an inexpensive musical instrument. Good for beginners.

The maple fifes from Cooperman are toys.

The Model F fife is a copy of a fife designed in the 1940s.

The...

As far as teachers are concerned, you might try these options if possible: fife teacher, flute teacher, Ed Boyle's CD from beafifer.com.

For fifes, Peeler's Firth and Pond model is the ONLY...

Don't forget that they would sometimes march 15+ miles per day. The band and drum corps were not playing the whole time. In theory, the drum corps would regulate the men to take 110 steps per minute,...

In the infantry, army musicians were either drummers, fifers, buglers, or bandsmen.

The drummers and fifers from each company were massed together to form the regimental drum corps, also referred...

You might contact the Carolina Fifes and Drums...

Also, you might consider learning to play the fife yourself. Most fifers and drummers agree that the fife is easier to learn anyway. And if you...

For some reason I can't get the photos to upload right now. Send me a PM and I will send photos. Or just look here:

http://beafifer.com/modelf.htm

2. Bb. Grenadilla wood with long, chrome...

The last one...

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"Respectfully forwarded to Gen. [Sylvester] Churchill...[by]A. Cady.

Sergt. C. Henke, Instructor of Fife
Sergt. M. Moore, Instructor of Drum

Ft. Columbus, New York, N.Y."
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Here are the first two pages of the manuscript Ed has kindly provided. The first thing I noticed was the similarity to Strube's 1869 manual for the first 3 tunes of the reveille. So I have also...

Are you sure that the Hessian isn't this version?

http://fifedrum.org/resources/music/nevins/23.shtml

Virtually every manual has the exact same version of the Hessian, except B&E. Here's B&E:
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I uploaded it to the Authentic Campaigner a while back. Send me a PM and I can email a copy. Too large a file to post here.

Ok. I will send the PDF files to you and the others that have requested the music soon. If anyone else would like to have it, just send an email to libertyhalldrumcorps@aol.com

The camp duty comes...

Yes, I meant to say plain. There's nothing plain about B&E...you get the point.

I saw that Minnesota B&E. But just because they owned a copy doesn't mean they were able to play all those difficult...

You can download original manuals for free here:

http://www.nationalcivilwarbrassmusic.org/MusicalResources.html

and here:

http://www.fifedrum.org/resources/

and here:

The newly released Liberty Hall Drum and Fife Corps CD contains the following calls:

3 Camps (Reveille)
Slow Scotch (Reveille)
Austrian (Reveille)
Dutch (Reveille)
Hessian (Reveille)
Quick...

"George B. Bruce, whose real name was George B. Barrett, was born about 1815-16 in (or near) Baltimore, MD...the 21-year-old Barrett enlisted in Maryland’s 2nd Regiment of Dragoons on November 18,...

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The neck and headstock are maple. The pot is steambent single ply oak.

Reduced to $350.