Military Musicians - Bands, Buglers, Drummers - Post them here

[mconrad]

WW2 AAF musician

 

US southwest? Or Mideast/India, even China?

 

[338thRCT]

Picked up this old photo today. I'm guessing pre-war 1930's to early 40's?. The 258th FA had been a National Guard Unit and was federalized during the war.

[carthage light guard]

107th Engineers, 32nd Division.

[RAZGY]

Photo from Internet, DUI from my Collection

[Powerhouse]

Extract from a yardlong photo taken October 25th, 1941 at Fort Benning.

 

[repbrock]

Here is a great photo of the 50th Artillery CAC Band. This photo was given to my by the daughter of Juho Virta who served with my Grandfather in the 50th. www.50cac.com She gave me a number of other photos, documents and letters. His uniform grouping is out there somewhere as it was given to a collector many years ago and it has changed hands several times. I would very much like to reunit the grouping with his other items...

 

Here is a photo of the grouping last time it was sold...

[36thIDAlex]

Here is a band of the 3rd MARDIV. This was taken by my grandfather from his ship when it arrived in Yokohama on the way to Korea in 1961. I love the bass drum art.

 

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[45govt]

Hello

A recent acquisition

 

Louis Fortmann, Jr., Principal Musician, 9th Infantry Division 1895, this from period writing on reverse

 

 

 

[collector]

David Weir

6th Division WW1

318th Engineers

 

manual

 

couple of pages

[Lee Ragan]

Hello

A recent acquisition

 

Louis Fortmann, Jr., Principal Musician, 9th Infantry Division 1895, this from period writing on reverse

 

 

 

That would be 9th Infantry REGIMENT. There were no divisions till 1917.

[Salvage Sailor]

Evening band practice while bivouacked along the Waianae mountains, Schofield Barracks, T.H.

Winds Section - Saxophones, flutes, clarinets & the tubas

 

Horn Section - the brass tubas, trumpets, trombones and bugles

Take notice of the leather musicians satchel on their left hips.

 

Bandmaster and the Bass Drum, there is undoubtedly a snare drummer facing him who is blocked in the photo

 

Evening band practice while bivouacked along the Waianae mountains, Schofield Barracks, T.H

The band warming up, a few spectators lounging in the tents

[easterneagle87]

Just found today! Wearing 10th Corps patches. Bass Drum reads; Signalaires, 4th Signal Bn. Corps. With the WW2 style DUI.

 

DUI, example from ebay. Later versions appear to be more square in shape.

[FTLewisBrat]

Evening band practice while bivouacked along the Waianae mountains, Schofield Barracks, T.H

 

 

Bandmaster and the Bass Drum, there is undoubtedly a snare drummer facing him who is blocked in the photo

 

The snare in the photo should be this one...

 

The "U.S." was removed, or lost to time. The hoop claws on the Army drums during this period were different than the civilian versions.

 

Also a great picture of the drums in production, caption reads;

 

- Drum beats for Uncle Sam -

 

William F. Ludwig, 62 year old owner and founder of the WFL Drum Co. of Chicago, whose company is working on a large order placed with it by the U.S. Army, shown testing the final quality of one of the completed instruments. August 17, 1941.

[Salvage Sailor]

Excellent! They may have also made the Bass drums too.

[FTLewisBrat]

I know that both WFL and Slingerland supplied snare drums to the Army during WWII. The Slingerlands are stamped W669-QM-19239 on the inside (which is the Army designation for the Slingerland model 634).

 

I'm not 100% sure about Bass drums, but, I suspect that both WFL and Slingerland supplied those as well.

 

Here's a picture of the Slingerland model (I don't own the Slingerland, just the WFL above)

[patches]

Just found today! Wearing 10th Corps patches. Bass Drum reads; Signalaires, 4th Signal Bn. Corps. With the WW2 style DUI.

This is in Korea during the war, note the wearing of the X Corps patch with White portion Up, a trait of the Korean War X Corps.

See the posts in this topic showing this.

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/514-x-corps/

 

[abqpropguy]

A photo I purchased recently. It shows a concert of the USMC Band at the Worlds Fair in St Louis, MO 1904.

 

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[SgtMaddoxUSMC]

Nice shot of the 1904 band!

[Salvage Sailor]

4th US Cavalry Mounted Band, Honolulu 1913

[Simonmon]

6th Cavalry Band

Vendôme 1919 (France)

 

6th Cavalry Band

Vendôme 1919 (France)

 

6th Field Signal Battalion Band

France WWI

 

France WWI

Location and unit unknow

 

 

France July 31, 1918

Location and unit unknow

Simon.

[world war I nerd]

Classic image of a WW I era bandsman wearing the 1910 Enlisted Men's Garrison Belt and a 1904 Musicians Pouch.

 

A better view of the above belt and pouch.

[world war I nerd]

1918 dated bass drum from the U.S.S. Wyoming.

[world war I nerd]

6th Corps MP and a Doughboy mandolinist hanging out with a woman they called "the American Mother" and her family in Luxembourg, 1919.

[world war I nerd]

Army or National Guard bugler circa 1906.

 

Another Army or National Guard bugler and his pal, also circa 1906-ish.

[world war I nerd]

The nucleus of a company string band circa 1917 or 1918. The guitarist is wearing a non-regulation shawl-collar sweater that appears to be olive drab in color.