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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