Home Corps of Artillery Field Music Some of the earliest fife and drum recordings
Some of the earliest fife and drum recordings

 

Some of the earliest fife and drum recordings mostly on Edison cylinders from around the turn of the 20th centery.

 

Cylinder Preservation and igitization Project

Department of Special Collections

University of California.

http://www.ucsb.edu/

 

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The girl I left behind me

Columbia Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps.

Year of Release:[1899]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=fife+and+drum&num=1&start=5&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia

 

Bugle union march

The Grenadier Fife, Drum and Bugle Band.

Edison Bell Record

Year of Release:[either 1900 or 1901]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=fife+and+drum&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id

 

Florodora

U. S. Marine Fife and Drum Corps.

Year of Release:[1902]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=fife+and+drum&num=1&start=4&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia

 

And finally Marching through Georgia (recorded only 34 years after real march)

Columbia Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps.

Year of Release:[1899]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=fife&num=1&start=7&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia