Hello I usually don't send out mass emails but.. Today I'm out of the US Air Force for one whole day... I'm going to re-enlist tomorrow at high noon at...
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robert_m_goodman@...
Mar 7, 2001 4:41 pm
RJ: Did the Kastner reprint ever arrive? Bob "RJ Samp" <rjsamp@...> on 12/15/2000 12:55:41 PM Please respond to bugle@egroups.com To:...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 9, 2001 4:39 pm
Copper Clairon: $600 and they play sweet. Not quite as authentic looking as a Stewart. Plus we cheat and throw on an adjustable receiver for tuning. The ...
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Jari Villanueva
jvmusic@...
Mar 12, 2001 12:23 pm
Good morning Gentlemen I'm going to post this at the ACW Buglers forum too. Please read and offer feedback on this DRAFT. I'm trying to keep it as simple as ...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 12, 2001 2:11 pm
For Parade: we play a common step or waltz going down the line, and a quick step going back. Buglers in the rear rank (Fifers, drummers, buglers, in that...
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Jari Villanueva
jvmusic@...
Mar 12, 2001 4:40 pm
Hello I agree not to play Attention as part of this sequence. The reason I put it in was because it was mentioned in the Dal Bello book. In it he calls ...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 12, 2001 5:12 pm
I've been using ATTENTION since I started reenacting....and it's all of my manuals, etc. In all my units it means COUTER UP. Heck, I want to play MORE Bugle...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 12, 2001 6:06 pm
For those without access to the regs, here's the skinny on Dress Parade, which I put together for my own use from available sources: Before the Civil War, the...
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RebSkier@...
Mar 12, 2001 6:34 pm
As usual, Joe with his impressive research has pulled it all together for us! YOS, Don...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 12, 2001 6:36 pm
Great Stuff! Now, how do you do this By the Bugle? (it's in Dom's Book....and Butterfield's) And when will any reenacting unit out there EVER have a RETREAT...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 12, 2001 6:52 pm
Does anyone know where this is addressed for the CAVALRY command? We've often had joint Cavalry/Infantry parades, or cavalry only..... we've used the Infantry...
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Jari Villanueva
jvmusic@...
Mar 12, 2001 7:39 pm
Thanks Joe Great information and good sources. I will use them to codify our Parade sequence using the first three to get the troops down to the Color Line. My...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 13, 2001 3:32 am
Can't put my hands on the source right now, but I believe when honours were to be paid to an individual or individuals, a review was usually added for that...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 13, 2001 5:01 am
I've got references to Division, Corps, and ARMY Dress Parades!!! The heck with a brigade level dress parade Joe, that's small potatoes. have you found me a...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 13, 2001 5:47 am
Absolutely. The idea was that a large group of squealing pounding musicians charging the enemy would make them flee in terror, or maybe disgust. But really,...
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Jari Villanueva
jvmusic@...
Mar 13, 2001 9:53 am
Hey Guys I'm thinking a little more on the Attention Call. RJ says not to play it and Steve Z says the men didn't receive schedules during the CW. So... If...
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Jari Villanueva
jvmusic@...
Mar 13, 2001 10:08 am
Hi About those massed buglers: Passages can be found in the Bible and in early writings of troops being marched to the martial blasts and in ceremonial...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 13, 2001 1:59 pm
Ahh, Jari has now hit on the reason for RETREAT ROLL CALL the afternoon before. It's the one of our BIGGER Authenticity blunders in reenacting. 99% of the time...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 13, 2001 2:11 pm
At Gettysburg 135, July 1998. The Federal Infantry Brigades (all 7 of them) combined the musicians from their subordinate battalions into Field Music units 'by...
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RebSkier@...
Mar 13, 2001 4:16 pm
Jari: I few thoughts on the latest revision, IMHO: (A) Why either Drum or Bugle? Why not both? This seems the more logical and authentic way to go! The...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 13, 2001 4:27 pm
I'm sticking with my first statement. Never say never. As soon as you do, some yahoo will come along with some obscure contradictory source that will make you...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 13, 2001 8:48 pm
For artillery buglers, we have this from Billings' "Hard Tack and Coffee": "At about 5:45p.m., ATTENTION was blown, soon to be followed by the ASSEMBLY, when...
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David M Fulcher
dfulcher5@...
Mar 15, 2001 6:19 am
Now let's look at this if the chief bugler is a regimental position then why would you think that the massing of musicians from anything larger than a regiment...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 15, 2001 9:42 pm
Bob Szabo is transferring the web site to another server...... RJ Samp Sr. Consultant Cowley and Associates 100 W Roosevelt Rd Bldg A2, Ste 201 Wheaton, IL...
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RJ Samp
rjsamp@...
Mar 17, 2001 8:34 pm
"For example, many buglers have listened to a popular recording of bugle calls, and unfortunately have copied its inaccurate playing of Hardee's (and then...
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David M Fulcher
dfulcher5@...
Mar 18, 2001 12:17 am
I couldn't agree with RJ more, I've always been a firm believe in letting conditions set the tempo and volume. Now I have not had the chance to play with...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:12 am
Great subject. Nice having a place to discuss all these things. I don't know, RJ, but I think the army put all those tempo markings there for a reason, and...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:17 am
I don't know, RJ, but I think the army put all those tempo markings there for a reason, and kept them for over a hundred years, even after the post-war...
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Powelltpt@...
Mar 19, 2001 3:55 am
I am a little late getting into this but I think regulations were definitely not followed too closely mostly due to the aural history of learning things by ear...
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JOEWHITNEY@...
Mar 19, 2001 6:19 am
Sorry to pick back onya, RJ. "We usually halt after the left wheel and play Three Cheers." Shouldn't Three Cheers be played before starting the troop? Never...
