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Query for brass band mailing list (fwd)



Folks,
	I received this e-mail today. Can anyone help tracy? Please e-mail
her direct (copy to the list if you want) as she is not a subscriber.

-Nigel

Forwarded message follows:

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> From: TRACY TURNER <tturner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> 
> I wonder if you could post a query for me on the brass band mailing 
> list, details of which I have come across today on the www.
> 
> I am seeking information on my great grandfather who was a musical 
> director.  He would have been known as Arthur HOWE, Arthur Walter 
> HOWE, or Arthur Walter Curzon HOWE.  (He seems to have used all these 
> names throughout his life - don't ask me why!)
> 
> I believe he was born in 1880 in Bow London and served with the Welsh 
> Regiment in early life as a boy drummer, and subsequently in World War 
> 1 as Quartermaster Sergeant.
> 
> He and his wife Elsie had some music hall connections at some stage, 
> possibly touring between 1911 and 1914.  I am however particularly 
> interested in finding out about his career as a 'musical director'.
> 
> It is said (although I have my doubts) that he was at one time 
> Bandmaster to Lord and Lady Willingdon.  He is also said to have been 
> bandmaster for a number of well know colliery and other bands 
> (specifically in the Leeds or general Yorkshire area I believe).  
> Certainly, when he died in 1938 he was bandmaster of the Skegness 
> Excelsior Silver Prize Band.
> 
> I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who could offer any 
> information on my great grandfather, or who could point me to any 
> other sources.
> 
> I can be contacted at tturner@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Tracy Turner
> 

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Nigel Horne. Conductor, Arranger, Band Tutor. Internet: njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fidonet: Nigel Horne @ 2:253/417.49; Packet: G0LOV@GB7SYP.#19.GBR.EDU;
http://www.smsltd.demon.co.uk. Phone: +44-1226-283021.


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