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Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?

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Subject: Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?
From: oui <mavnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:23:12 +0100 (BST)
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Wakeley wrote:

> Hello all you bairnes out there!!!!!!
>     and you are 'only' bairnes.....*
> 
> 
> In July 1815, yes 1815, local press and archive material states that on t=
he
> 10th of
> that month 22-18s-0d was raised to purchase instruments for a local 'town
> band'. It was a subscription band and some of the instruments were not of=
 a
> brass nature. The first documented evidence that the band was a brass ban=
d
> was a parade for the Union Society on 19th July 1856. It is believed that
> the band was a brass band when it paraded for the coronation of George IV
> 28th July 1821.

Excuse me if this is wrong, but I thought that the first piston valve was
not patented until 1818( by St=F6lzel, in Germany), with the first 
instruments incorporating the design not appearing for about another 10
years or so. So unless it was made up of entirely trombones, and natural
trumpets and horns, 1821 would seem a bit unlikely.

Dave Taylor
Warwick University brass band 1st euph
Rolls-Royce (Coventry) band spare trombone (1st for the next few weeks-wow!=
)






> The bands first recorded contest was the 1867 Kirkdale Floral & Agricultu=
ral
> Contest but no results were registered. The first recorded contest win wa=
s
> in 1886 when the band played 'Norma' and ' William Tell '. So as you can
> see,  Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band are the true old boys of the band wo=
rld
> ????
> unless of course you know different.
> 
> http://www.wakeley.demon.co.uk/kirkbyband.htm
> 
> Bye for Now
> David Wakeley
> Greenbank, Amotherby, Malton
> North Yorks, YO17 OHP
> www.ryedale.co.uk
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> *(lads)
> 
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