Early brass bands also embraced new instrument designs adopted by their military counterparts or introduced by regimental and ex-regimental performers. The keyed bugle, patented by an Irish ...

Early brass bands also embraced new instrument designs adopted by their military counterparts or introduced by regimental and ex-regimental performers. The keyed bugle, patented by an Irish ...

Some officers auctioned off the instruments of their disbanded corps, making large volumes of affordable second-hand instruments available to amateur players and civilian bands in the post-war decades ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

It was previously believed the brass instrument groups began as a civilian and exclusively northern creation, with roots in ...

It was previously believed the brass instrument groups began as a civilian ... of military veterans in popularising brass bands in the early 19th Century has been unearthed by University of ...

said he wants to see more young people playing brass instruments, so he is running the Taupō Brass Academy. The academy, an initiative providing free tuition and free instruments to students from ...

The fingerboard’s intricate inlay uses pearl, silver, brass and copper. Stewart Special Thoroughbred Banjo ... According to ...