Todd, I emailed the fifedrum.org list with your info. Sue C. says she's never seen a fife that's half wood, half metal. So if it's a married piece, it's not...
I'm pretty sure I recall seeing a Cloos or Crosby fife whose body was dark wood, like ebony, but had a metal headjoint. Just can't recall when or where I saw...
List, I need a little help with a "story" that I remember from somewhere. Does anyone have any info. on Washington stopping to hear a trombone choir when the...
From http://www.englishcountrydancing.org/washingtonsmusic.html Throughout the eighteenth century there had of course been foreign musicians in America, who...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sincerely, Steve Dillon Fife, 2nd VA Reg www.dillonmusic.com ... musicians in America, who had come from abroad, and because...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sincerely, Steve Dillon Fife, 2nd VA Reg www.dillonmusic.com ... musicians in America, who had come from abroad, and because...
This has captured my curiosity. Check out http://shop.moravianbookshop.com/browse.cfm/4,191.htm Tuned for Praise: The Bethlehem Area Moravian Trombone Choir,...
Hey Todd, I've found on eBay a piccolo that is advertised for auction that probably resembles that which you've discribed as part metal and part wood. If you...
Mic, Thank you for the E-Bay Tip. The one that I was looking at is not at all like that piccilo. I believe that it is, as Sharon put it, a FIFE-N-Stein! If...
The Committee for the Night Watch Presents The Grande Illumination, St Augustine, Florida December 2nd,3rd & 4th, 2005 Dear Friends: The time is swiftly...
I have been informed recently that there may be a couple of drummers coming into the reenactment hobby. One drummer will be joining a local British AWI unit...
Sharon, For sticks, I'd recommend Cooperman's Connecticut Drummer for both. The sticks practically play themselves. (www.cooperman.com) Kim...
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Yes, those big arm movements were only for teaching the student initially, Virtually every drum instruction manual of the 18th and 19th centuries said that the...
Sharon I am untrained in ANY aspect of music, but I do save a lot of info when I find it. Here is a source for what appears to the untrained eye to be replica ...
calfskin heads and linen rope for my snare drum. Anyone know if I can get this stuff online? I already checked Coopermans site, and the Old Glory site does not...
Jim What size Heads. I may have something. I keep a small supply for Moodus Also you might try Mark Forsell of the Nutmeg Drum Shoppe. He lives in East...
Dear Jim, You might try emailing Cooperman directly, and mention your needs. If it's not in the online catalog, they might still have some stock in shop that...
Thanks Ron. My heads are 16". Mark's pages are at http://nutmegdrumshoppe.com/index.htm I'll send him a line. ... for Moodus ... lives in ... Hampton ... I...
Thanks Phil. I'll try the supply house idea also for the rope. I've seen rope at big musters in the past at some of the sutlers but I can't wait until next...
Sharon, tell them not to hang their drums too high. They should be low enough to guide them with their knee while marching and to allow easy acess to the head...
Jim, This is in response to Sharon's e-mail about new drummers from high school. I would recommend the CAT! That is, the Cat O'nine tails. Say a light...
Thanks for the resource, Todd. Where might I find such a book? Who wrote it? Great news about the fifer. Just wish I could find more around here. Sharon ...
Dear Sharon, You'll need to teach these guys the long roll sooner rather than later and it takes a while to perfect. I find it easier to teach students longer...
Looking at the original manuals, it looks like virtually every one from Longmans on has the student start by learning the long roll first. I can't recommend...
Coopermans sells a 22" snare drum as a period 1600s instrument. If that is correct, then drum size must have dimuished by the late 1700s. Eames always claimed...
Cooperman's 22x22 is probably pretty close. It's probably copied off of an Elizabethan original that survives. There a a couple of these drums surviving from...
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