[Trombone-l] Civil War Bands

[bjmchaffie@aol.com]

Many years ago while doing some research on Dixieland, I ran across a 
book in our library which had several pages on Civil War Bands, and it 
was concluded by the scources of the book that those bands played in 
front of the marching soldiers, thus the back facing horns.  It did 
appear in some of the photos that an instrument resembling an 
ophleclide was also used, but it did not face backwards while played of 
course.

The bandsmen were dressed in Soave pants, vests, and blouses.

The library has been modernised therefore that kind of reference 
material has been removed.

beldon wade


-----Original Message-----
From: thetubameister at adelphia.net
To: Adrian Drover <slide at adios.co.uk>
Cc: 'trombone-l: server5.samford.edu' <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>; 
'Harry Wootan' <hpw3 at mindspring.com>
Sent: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Civil War Bands



Geeze, Adrian.  You're not supposed to make me laugh that loudly at 
work, for
crying out loud!  :-D

Everyone thinks I've lost it.

Thanks for my good morning joke; maybe the strategy was to scare hell 
out of
your own troops first?

J.c.

---- Adrian Drover <slide at adios.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > From: Harry Wootan
> >
> >   http://www.otbrass.com/
> >
> > You might even be interested in their website just to see their 
collection
> > of horns.
>
>
> Looks like all the alto, tenor and bass instruments had backward 
facing
> bells.  Not very good planning for scaring the shit out of the enemy.
> Bagpipes would have been a better choice.
>
> A.
>
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