Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

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 ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such ...

But a Cambridge University academic has put a muffler in that claim with a study that claims they were actually started by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars. Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe ...

Their creation was a result of an elaborate intention to have a partying experience that is disruptive and one that can go ...

A new study suggests that brass bands, long associated with coal mining and industrialisation, actually date back to the Napoleonic Wars | ITV National News ...

Members Don Anderson, Bill Matthews, Ken Forfia, Mark Dunlop and Mark Weissman will converge upon the Main Street performance ...

The musical director of the Taupō Concert Band and trombonist in several brass bands, including Taupō, Levin and Hastings, ...

Money from the Education Excellence Fund, or EEF grant, will pay for some new percussion and low brass instruments. “For ...

University marching band students play brass and wind instruments, drums, or cymbals, and typically perform at home games, ...

Brass bands were found to have originated ... were supposed to be returned to public stores on demobilisation and band instruments generally belonged to regimental officers. However, drummers ...