[Dixielandjazz] Instruments and vibrato

[David Richoux]

Fred & all - about half of my books on the topic are in deep storage  
(won't be available for a few more months) but I did pull these from  
my shelves tonight:

Talks with Bandsmen (mostly about 1800s British and "colonies" bands,  
some about USA.)
Algernon S. Rose (orig. published 1895)
Tony Bingham  - London ISBN 0946113068

The Tuba Family (all about all the history of the tuba range from  
Alto to SubContrabass.)
Clifford Bevan 1978
Charles Scribner's Sons  ISBN 0684154773 ( available used, prices are  
all over the place, but it is the very best book on the topic.)

Antique Brass Wind Instruments
Peter H Adams 1998
Schiffer Publishing ISBN 076430027X

Music of the Sea (lots of world navy brass bands history among other  
things)
David Proctor  1992
HMSO Publications (UK) ISBN 9780948065613

Origins of the Popular Style - The Antecedents of 20th Century  
Popular Music
(not specifically Brass Band, but very interesting)
Peter Van Der Merwe  1989
Clarendon Press London ISBN 019816305 3

Lost Chords by Gilbert Douglas (not "Lost Chords" by Richard M.  
Sudhalter )
The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs. 1942 and reprinted 1970
(again, not specifically Brass Band, but very interesting and OKOM  
related)
Cooper Square Publishers (reprint) ISBN: 0815403704



Then there are all the New Orleans Brass Band books, but those are  
still in boxes somewhere...

Dave Richoux

BTW, If you go to the UK style Brass Band websites there are links  
and references for much more.


On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Fred Spencer wrote:

> Dear David,
> What are the titles and publishers of the "few other books" you  
> have on brass bands? This would be of interest to me and other DJML  
> members. With thanks and cheers.
> Fred
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Richoux"  
> <tubaman at tubatoast.com>
> To: <drjz at bealenet.com>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Instruments and vibrato
>
>
>> As I said in the last paragraph... I have that book as well (and  
>> a  few others ;-)
>>
>>>> However, if we ignore all of that completely and just look at  
>>>> the history
>>>> of ALL brass bands in the US from 1865 to 1900 it become   
>>>> obvious  that
>>>> there were many thousands of instruments produced in the  USA  
>>>> (and Europe)
>>>> that would be all over the place - finding cheap 2nd  or 3rd hand
>>>> instruments in a city the size of New Orleans would be no  problem.
>>
>> Just about any city, town, or village in the country had a brass  
>> band  (or bands) of some sort some time in the 2nd half of the 1800s!
>>
>> Dave Richoux
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Fred Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> Dear David,
>>>
>>> Any assessment of the effect of the Civil War on the flooding of   
>>> the civilian market is no doubt more speculation than fact.To  
>>> quote  from "Music and Muskets. Bands and Bandsmen of the  
>>> American Civil War"(Greenwood Press, 1981) by Kenneth E Olson,  
>>> "The musicians took their music and instruments to their homes  
>>> where they relegated  them lovingly to the attic." In chapter 8,  
>>> "Bands and Bandsmen on  the Home Front", the author also points  
>>> out in this scholarly book  that there was plenty of music beyond  
>>> the battle areas. Cheers.
>>> Fred
>>>