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    A fife and drum corps is a musical ensemble consisting of fifes and drums. In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial...
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    Guard Fife and Drum Corps is one of four premier musical organizations of the United States Army. Members perform using musical instruments and wearing...
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    is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer. The word fife comes from the German...
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    Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps is an Ancient Fife and Drum Corps based in North Haven, Connecticut, and is a member of the Connecticut Fifers and Drummers...
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    A corps of drums, sometimes known as a fife and drum corps or simply field music, is a traditional European military music formation. Historically, a Corps...
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  • with one lead fife player and a troop of drummers. Unlike a drum corps, the drum troop is loosely structured. As such, a fife and drum band may have a...
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  • Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps was an American disco group in existence from 1975 to 1978. The assemblage of studio musicians (which, contrary to...
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    Preobrazhensky regiment) or more fifers. Some fifers, as part of the fife and drum corps that accompanied British Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet, were...
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    The Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps (aka Excelsior Brigade of Fifes and Drums, Excelsior Brigade, or Western New York Field Music) was founded in...
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    Flavors: California's new state mushroom, Good Food Award finalists, and more food and drink tidbits". The Mendocino Voice. Retrieved January 11, 2024. "California...
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    drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps)...
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  • Irish-American fife and drum corps based in Norwood, MA. It was founded in 1953 after the dissolution of the Saint Catherine of Siena fife and drum corps in Norwood...
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    in some fashion from ancient drum and fife corps. With the advent of the radio, bugle signaling units became obsolete and surplus equipment was sold to...
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    the U.S. Marine Corps Band, the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and in the peaked hats...
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    United States military music customs (category State ritual and ceremonies)
    American Revolution, United States military units primarily relied on fife and drum corps for musical support. The U.S. was first introduced to the bugle horn...
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  • The Middlesex County 4-H Fife & Drum Corps is fife and drum corps, which was formed in 1972 as a 4-H club in Concord, Massachusetts, in anticipation of...
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    originally a drum signal for soldiers' curfew. Other uses for military drums have been recruiting and calling for parley. Ancient Fife and Drum Corps, as well...
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  • his 2007 Secret Tour. In late 1975, disco studio group Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps recorded a version of the song where it peaked at number two...
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  • Uniform of a drum major in the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Uniform of a sergeant in the Commander-in-Chief's Guard Uniform of a drum major in the West...
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  • Volunteers (MCV) is a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit fife and drum corps that plays music from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Founded in 1982 at the end...
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    The Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps, or simply The Bluecoats, is a World Class competitive drum and bugle corps. Based in Canton, Ohio, the Bluecoats are...
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    snappy and light manner, as in the Pipe band tradition of Scotland. A much heavier approach is used in American Drum corps playing. Ancient fife and drum corps...
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    all-female fife and drum corps, Totoket Ancient Fife & Drum Corps, who holds their practice at Seaside Hall. A large quarry is still working and supplies...
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    It is also used in common in civilian marching bands, fife and drum corps and drum and bugle corps. To stand at attention is also a means of saluting when...
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  • referred to in the manual of arms) is carried by the drum major of the U.S. Army's Fife and Drum Corps, a ceremonial unit of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment...
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  • The Mattatuck Drum Band is an American fife and drum corps organized in 1767 in Farmingbury, now Wolcott, Connecticut. According to its website, it is...
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    Magazine. Retrieved 20 March 2016. "United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps". trumpetguild.org. International Trumpet Guild. Retrieved 12 December...
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    3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) (category Military units and formations established in 1784)
    battle"; the uniforms also include cocked hats and white powdered wigs. The drum major of the Fife and Drum Corps traditionally bears an espontoon (a historic...
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  • 1863 to 1867 Nickname of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment and its Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Old Guard, a segment of the leather subculture Alter Kämpfer...
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    termination of Flight 93 in nearby Shanksville in 2001. The Berlin Fife and Drum Corps is one of the oldest such bands in North America. Snyder of Berlin...
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