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INDEX.
Aeneatores march in front of Roman army, 4.
---------, Roman, 4.
Almain whistle, 28.
Antoninus, Column of, 4.
Artillery kettledrums and car­riage, 1700 (illustration), 39.
Ashantee war horns, 5.
Austria, Band reform in, 108.
Austrian army bands in 1769, 57.
--------- bands fall on evil
times, 137.
--------- cavalry bands sup­pressed, 137.
--------- Emperor's band, 92.
--------- infantry band, 109.
---------infantry bands in 1827,
99.
Austro-Hungarian bands, 72.
Bagpipe introduced into Scot­land, 28.
Band festival of 1860, 123.
Bandmaster, Advertisement for, 1774, 60.
Bandmasters allowed in "Army Estimates" for 1851-2, 129.
—------controlled pitch, 96.
---------had no military stand­ing, 109.
--------- not formerly officially
recognised, 129.
---------, Some famous, 82.
Bands at Salamanca, 89. ---------at Talavera, 89.
--------- augmented, 94,
---------, difference of pitch, 106.
---------, Dress of, 60.
Bands, French controversy on, 111.
--------- essential to credit of
regiment, 94.
--------- in 1845, 110.
---------in 1854,-111.
---------, Instructions for, 59.
---------, instrumentation very
meagre, 61. «---------in the fighting line, 88.
--------- not supported by
State, 52.
---------, Officers compelled to
support, 94.
---------of music, 56.
---------of regiments, 94.
---------, Reform in system of
raising and supporting, 117.
---------, Rivalry between, 96.
Bass clarinet in " Les Hugue­nots," 113.
---------drum and cymbals, 75.
--------- horn, 86.
---------tuba, The first, 87.
Bassoon in military bands, 49.
--------- in use in England
before 1760, 51.
Batyphone, 113.
Beethoven's military band scores, 101.
Belgian commission on mili­tary bands, 137.
---------Guides, 108, 140.
Belgium, Band reform in, 108.
"Beowulf" quoted, 6.
Berlioz a sponsor of the mili­tary band, 124.
Biron, Marshal, quoted, 22.
"Blacks," The, 77.
---------, The last of the, 77.
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