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iranzi wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:07 pm Although, a more likely scenario would be some western government likes the idea and starts forming small uniformed brass band, to be sent to provide moral support for UN peacekeepers in doing whatever it is they do...
Or sent to entertain the troops and boost their morale, in some hellhole newly wrecked by them...
(don't they do that already? i'm completely out of the loop)

bwilliams wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:22 pm Define help.

bwilliams wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:22 pm Define help.

BGuttman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:02 am

bwilliams wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:22 pm Define help.

The musicians in the military bands during the American Civil War doubled as stretcher bearers.

iranzi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:17 am

BGuttman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:02 am

The musicians in the military bands during the American Civil War doubled as stretcher bearers.

both sides?
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history is really fascinating.
In the present day, as i understand it, some version of military brass bands do exist as well. Anybody knows how they operate, used on what occasions, whether sent out with the troops abroad, etc, etc
Asking in good faith: not a foreign spy, not trying to poke fun at anything

Macbone1 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:41 am

iranzi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:17 am

both sides?
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history is really fascinating.
In the present day, as i understand it, some version of military brass bands do exist as well. Anybody knows how they operate, used on what occasions, whether sent out with the troops abroad, etc, etc
Asking in good faith: not a foreign spy, not trying to poke fun at anything

As a military band veteran, I suggest you may want to do a web search on US Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine bands. Use those as keywords and you will get right to what you need.
Their missions are clearly displayed on their home pages. Specifically instrumentated brass bands are not common nowadays, the full concert band being the darling of most band commanders. They also generally march with full woodwind sections (minus double reeds of course). But bands do pride themselves in their "flexibility" to serve any occasion and can form up a brass band easily enough.
The Coast Guard only has one band and it seems to function largely as a touring "public relations" concert band.

Macbone1 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:06 am [...]As a military trombonist I have marched in 100 degree and 10 degree weather. Imagine taking a bassoon out in that!
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iranzi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:17 am

BGuttman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:02 am

The musicians in the military bands during the American Civil War doubled as stretcher bearers.

On both sides?

Macbone1 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 2:31 pm Bruce l think l know that guy

2bobone wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 3:14 pm I spent several of my "formative" years playing euphonium in the "Hazleton Liberty Band". The band has an amazing history. It joined the Union Army as a unit ! they were then known as "Gleim's Band" and later became the HLB. They played celebration music at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House and performed a dirge at Lincoln's funeral. In the band hall, on one wall, there was a set of "Over The Shoulder" Saxhorns hanging for many decades. When Frederick Fennell decided to produce a recording of Civil War music with his Eastman Wind Ensemble, many of the instruments were overhauled by Robert Sheldon at the Eastman School of Music and used in that effort. Bob Sheldon later became a music technician at The Smithsonian Institution where he saved many instruments of the period.
My favorite activity with the band was the annual Washington's Birthday Parade ! The band would march through town playing marches and stopping at every firehouse where free beer was the main attraction. Then, upon return to the band hall, the party really began. Tradition had it that the band leader would prepare a huge kettle of Navy bean soup and tap a keg of beer. Laid out on the tables in the main dressing room were loaves of pumpernickel bread, baskets of Bermuda onions and blocks of Mohawk Valley Limberger Cheese. There was nothing like a Limberger and onion sandwich washed down by copious amounts of beer and bean soup ! A poker game started almost immediately and most players smoked cheap cheroot cigars. Within the span of an hour, you could cut the air with a knife ! Definitely a fond memory !

mgladdish wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:09 am I've started depping in the local brass band. It's tons of fun. Marches and hymns being their staple, and played beautifully. It's a real challenge to play quietly enough to blend in - I'm not used to that sort of playing in the slightest.
But every now and then they'll attempt jazz and it's a rumpy-pumpy cringe-fest all round.

iranzi wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:32 am

mgladdish wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:09 am I've started depping in the local brass band. It's tons of fun. Marches and hymns being their staple, and played beautifully. It's a real challenge to play quietly enough to blend in - I'm not used to that sort of playing in the slightest.
But every now and then they'll attempt jazz and it's a rumpy-pumpy cringe-fest all round.

i want to do this too! can you recommend any particular band or bands please?

as for cringe fests —that's is my specialty, word class level here

iranzi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:00 am
But what's with the double reeds? fell out of favor at some point or were never invited in the first place?