Hey guys, there will never be another Jack Dixon! Who else could wear a barrel so stylishly? And by the way, you guys did do a good job. Check out my new...
Der Schtumppf, I won't be at McDowell this year...... so email Bill Watson (our Sargeant at Ft. Delaware 2 years ago) and offer him your services....Dan...
Dear Everyone (except Der Schtummpf).... Now that Jack is getting bigger, taller, older, a more mature trumpeter.....we'll need a new nickname for him..... I...
http://www.recoilmag.com/news/civil_war_re-enactor_0403.html Read this. Okay, If he did something once, should he not have been banned? What do they have, a...
FYI I heard Paul Harvey talk about that today and he said the BSA didn't have a bugling merit badge any more. SC Jay ************************************** See...
That's hilarious! I think the "no anesthetic" part was the first clue. Also, remember all the worldwide publicity over the French guy whose pistol fired a...
I hoped it was a hoax as soon as I started reading it... But I'll tell you this, had he shot my horse with a live round there would have been a news story....
"...would be on Larry King at the least." Either that...or JERRY SPRINGER. Mark Jaeger ... pistol fired a piece of metal into another reenactor at Gettysburg?...
Another obvious error is the photo in the article. I've been to Olustee many times and I don't remember fresh green rolling meadows as any part of the...
Jan--- Thanks for your reply and for the good news on your cords. Can you send me more information on how to order? I am very much interested. Sorry for the...
Jari: Thanks for the video on youtube. I often wonder what people will think of us a hundred years from now as we too look backwards.... Everett Jari...
Forget about it, you can clearly see that the bell is attached with a ciruclar seam to the body of the trumpet or whatever it is. So definitely post war. Jan ...
Valves aren't right for the period, it has a waterkey, and a few other things that link it to late 19th century, early 20th.. This looks like it might be 1880...
The person selling this trumpet doesn't appear to know the dates of the Civil War. He begins "Up for auction is this Civil war trumpet." and then states "The...
Interesting - According to Langwill, W H Cundy wasn't born until 1868. :-) Higham was around as early as 1842, but looks like a lot of the early productoin was...
I have been for a long time under the impression that valved instruments first appeared in the 1850's, but that the mechanics of them were poor, and did not...
RE: Patricks comment on "ebay find" Valved Instruments were around as early as the late 1830's to my research. But some where developed in the 1820's not in...
I don't know if my previous post went through so here it is again: Take this with a chunk of salt, but, according to a 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica entry,...
Short answer: The horn in question has the wrong type of valves because they are long- stroke piston valves. ACW-era horns had string-action rotary valves, ...
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