The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-30

money while everybody else was
spending it, he has worked just as
hard for his 81 or S. as he could
have done had he been brick laying or
| farming or clerking or barbering.
The band which has become so ia
miliar to us that we regard it as a
necessity, is an institution of ancient
origin. Our own army and navy have
had bands for more than a century
| and civilian bands in this country date
back almost as far. The band as an
organized body of musicians could not,
of course, come into existence until a
variety of different musical instru-
ments had been invented and the de-
velopment along this line proceeded
somewhat slowly a few centuries back.
trom the outset, however the most
uncivilized nations recognized the
three chief factors of band musta-
rhythm, melody and harmony, as
manifested by the three basic instru-
ments, the drum, the fife and the
bugle or cornet. In this connection it
is interesting to note that the drum,
which is closer to the heart of young
America than any other unit in the
band is an instrument which came
to us from the Orient.
The bugles and cornets, which are
so much in evidence on the Fourth OF
July, have been developed from the
single tubes of antiquity. Originally
the range of these instruments was
limited to two notes, but in time the
tubes were bent and finally the in
strument was made in several coils, |
with the result that the musical range
was brOadened proportionately. The |
whistling instruments such as flies, |
flutes and clarinets, are the outcome |
of a somewhat similar development. |
1t is worthy of note that it. is seldom |
that anybody attempts to |
introduce a new instrument or a rad |
ical adaptation of an old design for |
use in bands. Every now and then |
some composer or orchestra conductor !
will come forward with some new or
chestra instrument (many of them
5hort-lived in popularity, it must be
admitted), but 1t is seldom that inven-
tors attempt to introduce new band
Instruments. Indeed, with the excep-
ion of some newfangled drums, there
mas been almost nothing new in this
field in many years
1t cannot be said that there is any
standard membership for a band
Many an American village that has
4 band of ten or twelve pieces plumes
tself on the possession, whereas the
small city is rare than can boast
1and of more than sixteen to twenty
members. Yet even this latter num-
Der appears small when compared
With the membership of our great con-
cert, military and naval bands. Such
| band usually has in the neighbor-
rood of fifty members, and some of
hem, with fife, drum and bugle
,orps added, muster nearly one hun
lred men on parade. In Germany and
tally the regulation military band is
made up Of forty-fve musicians, while
he most famous band in France num-
)ers seventy musicians.
The United States has always held
high place in the world of band
music, thanks not only to our great
bands, such as the noted
United States Marine band-the
Presidents own" which plays at the
White House-but also to the famous
private bands, such as those of Sousa
md the late Patrick Gilmore. Incl
lently it may be mentioned that
american band music has the call all
,ver the world. The lively, character
site, inspiring marches, such as those
by the March King" John
Philip Sousa, have been translated"
nto the band renditions of every civil
zed nation, and whereas an American
ometimes has difficulty in recognizing
he foreign versions of these dashing
.irs, they are, at worst SO much better