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Ancienttimes 2 1 Issue 135, Winter 2012 Le Carillon National, 2 DOlVNF.ALL~ t Published by Ah! Ça Ira and The 11,IJht, 11 ,.,.,, ._.,111 I,;,-, C,.t;fl\l P-.,1 Ii, «I I,, ) The Company of Downfall of Paris: ~bl~ Part Two frOm the ~A@_, -r T - Fifers & Drummers edItOr http:/ / companyoffifeanddrum.org 8 ~ ~~ _,. •'• ...... editor: Deirdre Sweeney Profile of a Company art & design director: Deirdre Sweeney Corps: advertising manager: 8 e have a number of ar- Robert Kelsey Adamsville Ancient Fife ticles from our Com- Contributing editor: Bill Maling and Drum Corps pany officers in this Illustrator: Scott Baldwin W membership/subscriptions: 9 issue. While this isn’t unusual, I For corps, individual, or life membership infor- would like to draw your attention mation or institutional subscriptions: In the Ancient Spirit Attn: Membership The Company of Fifers & to these articles. Drummers P.O. Box 277, Ivoryton, CT 10 The Company is an all-volunteer 06442-0277 [email protected] News & organization and as such faces tel: 860-767-2237; fax: 860-767-9765 Announcements 10 unique challenges. Lacking the co- editorial: ercive power of an employer, a For submissions or questions: 11 [email protected] volunteer organization cannot re- [email protected] Letters to the Editor tel: 508-847-4460 ally make you do anything. On the advertising: 12 one hand, the absence of devastat- For rates and availability contact: ing personal consequences result- Robert Kelsey, P.O. Box 185792, The Origin of Jaybird ing from non-involvement can Hamden, CT 06518 Day tel: 203-645-4231; email: [email protected] mean that nothing gets done. On The Company of 12 the other hand, and from a more Fifers & Drummers 15 positive perspective, that also President: John Hanewich, Here Ye! Here Ye! Come means that the efforts put into a [email protected] One, Come All! first vice President: Mark Logsdon, 586-247-1775, volunteer organization should be [email protected] reflected in the quality of the prod- second vice President: Bill Bouregy, 860-526-1433, 16 [email protected] uct produced. Because you are not Membership secretary: Sarah Brown, 860-399-7572, obliged to show up, when you do [email protected] Committee treasurer: Maureen Mason, it is more likely to be appreciated [email protected] Announcement 18 archives / museum Curator: Marty Sampson, and, while you don’t get paid, you 530-321-8873, [email protected] 18 also can’t be shown the door and facilities Co-manager: Kevin Brown, 860-399-7572,

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2 Ancient times La Carillon National, Ah! Ça

Editor’s Note: The first part of this series appeared in Issue 134. The introduction to the series is reprinted below.

By ROBIN ENgELMAN name appears on French Revolution documents, but the Prologue meagre details about his personal life serve only to tanta - After the fall of Rome, the Swiss are believed to have lize rather than inform. No written evidence gives the been the first to move their armies with the sounds of fifes name of the composer of The Downfall of Paris and its first and drums. For more than 150 years, Swiss halberdiers, use or appearance is unknown. Nevertheless, certain sto - fighting either to defend their homeland or as mercenaries ries about these works are regularly repeated as fact by au - to foreign monarchs were the scourge of Renaissance bat - thors and lecturers. This article examines the veracity of tlefields. At the battle of Marat in 1476, Swiss halberds de - those stories and reproduces the earliest extant manu - stroyed French heavy cavalry, proving for the first time in scripts of the music. the West that foot soldiers could defeat armored men and horses. Military use of fifes and drums quickly spread to “. . . any number of explanations are still current and prof - France, the rest of Europe and England. fered as facts, merely on the presumption that embellished reit - Henry VIII (1491-1547) was a true Renaissance man. He eration of statements correctly or incorrectly quoted produces composed music and kept a self-serving eye on military facts.” innovations. Henry employed kettle and field drummers, Oscar Sonneck, Library of Congress Report on Yankee but we do not know what they played. After Henry's death Doodle a paper dating from about 1455 was found inscribed with seven military (drum) signals but written in words only. dOwnfall Of ParIs, fall of Paris, After Arbeau's 1588 Orchesography , and the 1627 Torneo the fall of Paris or the downfall of Paris. by Bonaventura Pistofilo one might expect drum notation Below is a ca.1795 printing from Dublin, Ireland of The to have evolved along the lines of its pitch-producing con - Fall of Paris or Essex’s Quickstep (16). (The manuscript is in temporaries. Drummers however appear to have encoun - a layout popular during the late 18th and early 19th cen - tered or invented difficulties writing down what they turies; a rather simple keyboard adaptation published with played. Controversies over Renaissance and Classic Era an additional part for melody instruments.) This version, drum notation continue today while readable fife tunes as with three others shown below from 1805 and 1814, from the same period abound. does not give a composer's name. Commercial publica - The tunes that led men into battle and kept their faces tions such as this, usually made by in-house arrangers, forward were sometimes written by the likes of Handel suggest the tune was already well known, in the air if you and Mozart while others were written by the most prolific will. composers of all, Anon. Due in part to their opaque ori - Aside from dotted notes, the absence of a triplet 16th gins, some of the most famous tunes from history proved note pickup to the first measure and some melodic alter - susceptible to mythologizing. ations just prior to phrase endings, this 1795 melody is re - Preface markably similar to the arrangement Daniel Emmett made The music known today as Le Carillon National , Ah! Ça about 67 years later. Ira and The Downfall of Paris are in turn, associated with an But whence cometh the name The Fall of Paris ? England 18th century dance craze, the French Revolution (1789-99), and France were perennial enemies and, if one accepts and the Napoleonic era (1799-1815). All obtained wide - English authorship, the title could have been inspired by spread popularity in Europe, great Britain, Ireland and wishful thinking. Perhaps an ex pat or republican sympa - North America. yet very little is known about when or by thizer meant it as a musical momento mori when the great whom they were written. Only the last name of Le Carillon city was despoiled by Revolution. However, no explana - National’s composer is known, verified by an 18th century tion, composer's name or date appears on this or any other piano publication. Anything else about the man is rumour. manuscript of the tune. The lyricist of Ah! Ça Ira was a prolific writer and his last Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:15 AM Page 3

Ancienttimes 3 Ira, and the Downfall of Paris Part Two of a Two Part Series

g. ca.1795- The fall of Paris or Essex Quick Step: for the piano forte or harpsichord with Flute or Guitar, 16. book dated ca.1795.

the dotted eighth notes in measures 1 and 2 are obviously engraving errors. this is born out by their absence in the body of the work and in the flute and guitar music. ((the white back- ground impressions are the stamp of fsff rtl 1d mrp:r-1 cnt-EEJ Cambridge university library.) ~~t~PB ~

fall and ÇA IRA to be the same, but in this case, of French Early on Becourt's name became linked with the Down- origin. This inscription indicates a confusion about the au- fall. The manuscript below was published in Boston in thorship of the tunes. given the inflammatory title of the about 1812 by g. graupner, only 13 years after the start of Downfall of Paris and Becourt's historic association with the the French Revolution and just short of three years before equally inflammatory song Ah! Ça Ira, Dictum Populaire Air the treaty of ghent which officially ended the War of 1812 du Carillon National, the confusion is understandable, par- on 20 December, 1814. Near the top right, someone has ticularly by someone living as far removed from the written in pencil the name Becourt. The person who wrote sources as Boston. this may have thought, as did Captain Blakeney, the Down- cont. on p. 4 Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:15 AM Page 4

Ancienttimes 4 cont. from p. 3 Roger de Coverley, for the pianoforte, harp, or violincello [sic]. (Harvard University Theater Library.) h. The Downfall of Paris, ca. 1812, g. graupner, boston. (university of Pennsylvania rare books and manuscripts library.) In the same year graupner published Charles stewart ash- worth’s A New Useful and Complete Method of Drum Beating, price 2 dollars.

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J. Complete Instruction for the Fife, h. andrews, london, england, 1805.

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Because of its dynamics, the H. Andrews is of more than passing interest. As a rule, folk songs in collections, diaries and manuscripts do not contain dynamics. Therefore in this example their use and placement is unusual.

K. The Fall of Paris from the Buttrey Manuscript, ca. 1805, perhaps earlier (16). this could have been copied from the 1795 dublin version excepting the tied whole note reversal in the second strain. the dotted 16th notes are common in early printings. If one plays or sings the tune at a typical tempo of the era, m.m=72, the dotted notes add an appealing lilt to the straight 16th version.

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m. Downfall of Paris, arranged by george b. bruce and dan d. in their possession. I also wanted to investigate the popu- emmett, Drummers and Fifers Guide, wm. Pond and Co., new lar stories attached to these tunes. In their telling, they york, 1862. were entertaining, but I had never seen nor heard any proof of their accuracy.

DOWNFALL OF PARIS. The melodies of Ah! Ça Ira and Downfall of Paris ~ are very different even with their incessant eighth and two 16th notes which quickly embed them- ... .·· .. .,,_.. _· ..•.. ~ ;.. ~ ~ selves in a listener's mind. It must not be forgotten 7 • that Ah! Ça Ira, though composed originally for a dance, was and is most famously a song. Its melody was regularly altered to accommodate a variety of lyrics, but it remains recognizable because it always contains the repeated words Ah! Ça Ira and their rhythmic pattern (search youTube for Edith Piaf singing Ah! Ça Ira and compare to the fife manuscripts above.) No lyrics for the Downfall of Paris have come to light and the origin and purpose of the tune re- main unknown. Of the two tunes, The Downfall, as it is popularly referred to today is better known in North Amer- ica, probably because of its inclusion in Daniel Emmet and george Bruce's famous Drummers’ & Fifers' Guide of 1862. The Guide was never approved for use by the Union Army probably because it was considered too difficult for the average military fifer, but Bruce and Emmett's arrangement achieved a kind of cult status, most notably among drummers and is today regarded as the perfect blending of melody and rhythm. To my knowl- edge the Bruce drum beating in the Guide was the first to be published. The melody appears in only With the assistance of Ed Boyle the following additional one book in my collection of drum tutors and fife tunes, titles for Downfall of Paris were found on contemporary published in the United States between 1810 and 1861 (18). song indexes: Ça Ira, Carillon National, Ceimsios Parais - Judging by the number of arrangements for piano and Central Paris?, Downfall Of Paris, The Downfall Of Paris melody instruments published in the Eastern states just March, The Downfall Of Paris Set Dance - n.b. Irish set prior to and after the War of 1812, The Downfall of Paris was dances are based in the Quadrille, England The Home Of a popular tune in the parlors of American homes (popular The World, The Fall Of Paris, and La Ira. There are probably as well in other countries.) During my searches I found many more. among other oddities, The fall of Paris: a favorite Russian air epilogue arranged as a rondo with an introduction for the harp, I wanted to put these tunes and as many of the familiar, published in London by the Royal Harmonic Institution, yet disparate ideas about them into some meaningful and 1823. logical context. I wanted to find the earliest printed ver- The 18th century quick march of the 14th Regiment of sions of the Quadrille Carillon National, engraved with Be- Foot and today’s yorkshire Regiment, was and is Ça Ira. court's name, the song Ah! Ça Ira Dictum Populaire Air du And it is almost identical to the tune as published in Paris Carillon and the Downfall of Paris. I believe I have been suc- in 1790. cessful. Libraries in Europe, England, Ireland, the United The eminent musicologist Henry george Farmer (1882- States and Canada provided digital images of manuscripts 1865) expressed concern for the lack of interest his fellow Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 7

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countrymen displayed towards all likelihood not named for a person, but twice on the inside cover and there is a British military music. The mysteries rather for the county in England whose naive looking water-colour of a drum surrounding the date and authorship early Saxon name means East Saxon.” major from about 1805 on the same page. of the Downfall of Paris may be a case David Waterhouse, phone conversa- Buttrey leaves the service in 1810 and is in point. tion with R.E. back in Lincoln England by 1811.” I suspect all the questions surround- “There is no printed date on the work or Ken Purvis, Historian, Mont- ing Le Carillon National, Ah! Ça Ira and any note relating to it. However the paper gomery's Inn, Toronto. Letter to R.E. the Downfall of Paris will not be an- has a 1795 watermark, therefore it can be 18. Piaf sings Ah! Ça Ira in the 1954 swered fully here, or to everyone’s dated as 1795 at the earliest (although of film Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Af- satisfaction. But perhaps this and fu- course it could be later than that).” fairs in Versailles). Clips are available ture articles will moderate or at least Margaret Jones, Senior Asst. Librar- of her cameo on youTube. qualify some of the more egregious ian, Music Dept., Cambridge Univer- 19. The yorkshire Regimental Band anecdotes. sity Library. Letter to R.E. playing its Quick March, Ça Ira, is As my friend, scholar David Water- 17. The National Archives of available on youTube under the title house said, “It never ends.” Canada, Ottawa. Yorkshire Regiment (Quick March). Robin Engelman is a professional per- “The Buttrey manuscript appears to 20. The tune appears as Downfall of cussionist based in Canada. He has per- have been the tune-book of the 34th regi- Parais (sic) in Vol. 9 of Musical Miscel- formed with many orchestras and ment and contains a first hand account of lany, The Martial Music of Camp symphonies and has received several the Battle of St. Kitts in 1782. John But- Dupont, etc. Pennsylvania, published awards. trey was born in that year and didn't join by the author in Philadelphia, PA, Footnotes: the regiment until 1797 and didn't leave 1815. 16. “The dance Essex Quickstep was in England until 1799. His name appears

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8 Ancient times Profile of a Company Corps

Adamsville Ancients Fife and Drum Corps, Inc. Delmar, New York

n February of 1988, a small group The Company of Fifers & Drummers in Fast Facts of experienced fife and drum mu - the fall of 1988 and have attended Founded : Isicians met at the Bethlehem Town roughly 200 ancient musters and other 1988 in Delmar, Ny Hall in Delmar, New york to discuss events hosted by our fellow Company Address: forming a new ancient corps. We all member corps over the years, includ - PO Box 521 Delmar, Ny 12054 knew it would be an incredible chal - ing several trips to attend the Florida Website: lenge, but in the few months that fol - Ancient muster and yorktown muster www.fifedrum.org/adamsville/ lowed, the group planned, gathered in the mid-1990’s and, more recently, Contact: and made uniforms, purchased instru - the Loudoun Border guards musters [email protected] ments, recruited members, rehearsed in Leesburg, Virginia. In addition, the to try our hand at hosting a jam ses - music and secured gigs for the upcom - corps is proud to have attended every sion in 1995. We saw it as a way to ing summer. Deciding on a corps Westbrook Muster and National gather our fellow fife and drum name was relatively easy. Adamsville Muster of The Company since its found - friends together during the off season was the early 1800’s settlement named ing. to socialize and to get our “chops” for landowner Nathaniel Adams that It is hard to believe that our once ready for the upcoming muster sea - would later become Delmar, so it fledging corps is now entering its 25th son. The first jam was coincidentally seemed only natural to honor our marching season! Along the way, held on April 1st so the name just town’s history by taking its ancestral there have been many memorable flowed from there… The No Foolin’ name. And just like that, the events. In the early 1990’s, the corps Jam!! The jam originated as a night - Adamsville Ancients were born! hosted three successful musters in Al - time event in 1995 and while atten - It was in May of 1988, just three short tamont, Ny. Altamont was planning dance was okay, the corps realized months after the corps’ founding, that its centennial celebration in 1990, so a that if it was going to attract more the Adamsville Ancients made their fife and drum muster was a perfect fit, fifers and drummers from out of town, debut in two Memorial Day parades, with a built-in location at the county the jam needed to be held during the first in Altamont, Ny and then in our fairgrounds in the heart of the village. day. So the next year, the jam moved hometown of Delmar. A week later, With the success of the first muster, to the afternoon and has been held four members of the Adamsville An - the corps hosted two additional every year since. With word of mouth, cients represented the new corps at its musters in Altamont in 1991 and 1992. attendance has grown over the years. first muster: the 1988 National Muster A muster in 1993 was also in the Recent jams have welcomed well over hosted by the yankee Tunesmiths in works until the corps found out that 100 attendees! The corps’ 18th annual Richmond Hill, Ny. The corps was the fairgrounds had inadvertently No Foolin' Jam will be held on March given a real boost by The Elsmere Fire scheduled our event on the wrong 31, 2012 in Albany, Ny and we hope Company “A” who, sight unseen, con - weekend – Memorial Day weekend! to see all of our fife and drum friends tracted the Adamsville Ancients to We quickly realized that holding a there! march in four parades during the muster over one of the busiest parade Through it all, the Adamsville An - summer of 1988. The Elsmere Fire weekends of the summer for our visit - cients is about family and friends. Company continues to be one of our ing corps was not going to work, and Many of us met and became friends corps' supporters to this day. we were unable to find another suit - over the years at fife and drum The main goal we had in forming the able weekend at the fairgrounds, so musters and have come together to corps was the perpetuation of the an - we were forced to cancel plans for a join the Adamsville Ancients. As such, cient fifing and drumming heritage muster that year. corps members come from not only and the spirit of friendship that exists A few years passed and the corps the greater Albany, Ny area, but also among fellow ancient corps. To this was itching to host another event. from Massachusetts and Connecticut end, the Adamsville Ancients were With so few events during the winter and the corps rehearses and performs proud to be accepted as members of and early spring months, we decided in southern cont. on page opposite Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 9

Ancient times 9 IN THE ANCIENT SPIRIT

By EMILy BARONE music embodies the community of And the tune starts, “ Road to Boston !” our small group and our reverence for The high-pitched fifes struggle to be AP, TAP, TAP” This is the the tradition. heard overtop of the ringing drums. sound which starts a tune I began fifing head-first. I owned a The notes whiz by; the drumsticks fly “T in the Monumental City plastic fife, which I had played once or in every direction. yet in that moment, Ancient Fife & Drum Corps. This is twice, but after seeing the Monumen - the passion I have for the music, and the sound of the lead snare “tapping” tal Ancients in a local July 4th parade, the bond I have with the people in the rest of the corps, signaling the I knew I had to be a member. From around me is conveyed. Music is a drumline to start, and directing the my first day in the Corps, I was wel - group experience, and what we create fifers to bring up their fifes. It is also comed by everyone, partly because of is a constant reminder that music will the sound of many personal memories the rarity of our hobby, but also due never be for one person alone. It is and emotions. It means hot summer to the talent and passion of each indi - through the combination of our differ - days in July. It means the smell of vidual. In the larger community, ent sounds, ideas, stories, and enthu - wool and Tuesday night practices in a everyone is interested in learning siasm, that we can truly convey our cold stable. Most importantly, how - about your corps and introducing you message – in the ancient spirit, but ever, this simple sound – one that to his/her friends, which was very ex - most importantly – with great music marks the beginning of a tune – brings citing as a new member. Through the strength. together powerful musical elements. Monumental City Ancient Fife & Emily Barone is 17 years old. She is a In that moment, the music becomes Drum Corps and other groups, I have fifer with the Monumental City Ancient bigger than any one person. The made lifelong friends. Fife & Drum Corps.

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New England as much as possible. are able to attend our rehearsals and Adamsville Ancients online to visit Founding corps members include events on a regular basis. Please con - our corps website and Facebook page three generations of the Willey and tact us by email at AdamsvilleAn - for more information! Thompson families, who combined [email protected] and also search for have contributed 14 members over the years. Other longtime member families include the McSweeneys, Bidwells, the Dunlap/Sill family (another three generation family), and the Short family, who have had 11 members in the corps at various times, including seven current members! With 24 seasons behind us and our 25th anniversary approaching in 2013, the excitement is only be - ginning! There is no better time to join the Adamsville Ancients and we’d love for you to be a part of the fun! The corps is open to all who adamsville ancients, 1992 are over 18, physically fit and who Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 10

10 Ancient times news & annOunCements from the fife and drum community

deep river Junior ancient fife & drum Corp needs your help !

ear Fellow Fifers & Drum - participates in local ceremonies thank you mers: The Deep River Junior representing our Country We thank you in advance for any do - DAncient Fife & Drum Corps We are excited to represent Deep nation you may be able to give. Take (DRJA) is River, Connecticut and our country at pride in knowing that all of your do - thrilled to an - this Basel, Switzerland Muster. This nation will go directly toward travel nounce that trip occurs at an ideal time for the expenses for members of the Corps. they are striving Corps and is an amazing event for all We hope to see you at the Deep River to attend the In - of our members. This is a once in a life - Ancient Muster! ternational time opportunity for the DRJA, espe - Sincerely, Muster in Basel cially for some of our longtime The Deep River Junior Ancient Fife Switzerland, members, who will be graduating in & Drum Corps June 2012. The June 2012. DRJA is a non- we need you Thank you for your support. Visit us profit 501c3 or - We are reaching out to drum up sup - today www.drja.org! Online donations are ganization port. your donation can make this trip secure and easy! Or mail donations to: focused on continuing the spirit of our possible. Our goal is to give this DRJA, P.O. Box 234, Deep River, CT nation’s musical heritage. The mem - unique experience to each of our 06417 bers learn the ancient art of fife & Corps members. We currently have 37 drum music and truly enjoy perform - members and the cost is estimated at ing for the community, honoring our $1,900 per person. Every little bit veterans in ceremonies and attending helps. We have added a handy “DO - parades and musters. The DRJA mem - NATE” button to our website for fast, bers range in age from 7 to 17 and safe, secure online donations. come from a number of towns. In - volvement in DRJA fosters teamwork and responsibility among the mem - deep river Juniors at the deep river ancient muster, 2011 bers and teaches them a sense of com - munity, history, and patriotism and gives them a firm foundation within the community. serving our Community The DRJA is involved in a variety of events. Last Memorial Day, the DRJA participated in three parades. Families looked on with pride as members of DRJA lined the street to salute our vet - erans in the pouring rain. Other groups packed up. Other parades were cancelled. The DRJA marched to honor our veterans. The DRJA also hosts soup suppers, food drives and Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 11

Ancienttimes 11 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

If you wish to send a letter to the editor, please consult the submission guidelines on page 17. naming of Jaybird day

In my Book Review published in An- cient Times Issue 134 of The Jaybird by Cooperman MacKinlay Kantor, I stated that The Company’s Jaybird Day was named after Handcrafted this book… and that Ed Olsen was the person who suggested the name. Subse- quently, I received a call from a person Fifes,Drums, & long associated with fifing and drumming who indicated Matt ”Sonny” Lyons, first Jaybird Chairman, named Drumsticks Jaybird Day. and Repair and Restoration Services for Those opinions led me to write the ar- Contemporary and Antique Rope Drums ticle on page 12 of this issue about the origin of Jaybird Day. It sounds to me From log to finished concert-quality instruments, Cooperman's drums, fifes, and sticks are the proud like the whole concept of Jaybird Day, product of over 50 years of dedication to traditional including the name, was the result of high-quality workmanship. collaborative thought, discussion and Visitors to our Vermont shop are always welcome. Pick much enthusiasm by quite a few “old up and delivery of repair work may be arranged.

time” Company members! We Jaybirds TM thank you all for establishing this an- Cooperman nual event! 1007 Route 121, P O Box 821, Bellows Falls, VT 05101 Jim Laske, Lancraft Voice 802 463 9750 Fax 802 463 4123 Web www.cooperman.com Email: [email protected]

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• cont. from p. 1 w. Alboum HAt Co. InC. included in every issue. If you have trou- ble getting in touch with them, please presents feel free to contact me and I will assist Authentic you. Deirdre Sweeney Fife and Drum Corps Hats Editor, Ancient Times For the finest quality headwear you can buy. Call or Write:

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JaybIrd day Initially discussed in 1974, the first Jaybird Day took place in 1976. By JIM LASKE tributions to the perpetuation and fter my Book Review of The preservation of fifing and drumming. Jaybird that appeared in The first Jaybird honoree was Ted Athe last issue of the An - Kurtz, named Honorary Chairman of cient Times , I realized I had not the 1st Jaybird Day . Ted was a long - mentioned how Jaybird Day came time member of the fife and drum to be an annual Company event. community who started manufactur - The idea of honoring senior mem - ing metal fifes when he was 12 years bers of The Company with their own old. Ted played with many corps and special event was first discussed at was a very well known member of the Lancraft’s Old Timer’s Night in 1974. fife and drum community. Ted passed That same year, Matt “Sonny” Lyons have away in 1981. was appointed as Chairman and the helped keep Francis X. O’Connell was the Master inaugural Jaybird Day was held on fifing and drumming a vibrant part of of Ceremonies for the first Jaybird Day. Sunday, May 16, 1976. This first Jay - our musical heritage. Francis (1899-1990) was a longtime bird Day took place at Lancraft’s Hall The origin of the Jaybird Day con - fifer with Lancraft, joining in 1917. As in North Haven, because The Company cept is explained in the Ancient Times Francis wished, his ashes, along with museum had not yet been acquired, article published in 1974 in the box on his wife’s, currently rest together in later opening in 1985. the next page. My thanks to Marty the display case in Lancraft’s Moriarty The annual seniors event is now part Sampson, Company Archivist, for fur - Hall. of the valued traditions of our fife and nishing the article…. and also to Jean Jaybird Day at The Company is cele - drum activity, honoring those mem - Lyons who sent me a copy of the pro - brated on the first Saturday in October bers over age 60 with a social gather - gram of the first Jaybird Day, of each year…so mark your calendar for ing at the museum. There is always which excerpts are shown as part of October 6th, 2012 and come join in the much reminiscing among old friends, this article. fun! a lot of jamming and a bit of jollifica - A special part of the day is an award Jim Laske is a member of the Lancraft tion… all contributing to making Jay - as Jaybird of the Year to one or more in - Fife & Drum Corps. bird Day a celebration for those who dividuals who have made special con -

members of the first Jaybird Committee Chairman Matt Lyons Buzz Allen Lou LaVassa Eldrick Arsenault John Mcguire Ron Chambers Roger Murray Ed Classey Ed Olsen Mark Dudley Bill Orkney Bill gallagher Joe Patten Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 13

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LyonsHeads Committee to Honor Senior Corpsmen as ''Jaybirds'' E.ldrlclt Arseru.rnlt, long-timla' rlrum instructor nnd f()r mer Lancroft drum se1·gc.rnt who serve

Above right: Ancient Times, volume two, Issue 2, summer 1974

Above left: message from the Jaybird Committee from the 1976 program for the first Jaybird day

Left: Jaybirds jamming at the 2011 Jaybird day. Photograph courtesy of Jim Laske

the Jaybird logo on the page opposite is taken from the 1976 program as well. Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 14

14 Ancient times CCOOMMEE AALLOONNGG aanndd DDRRUUMM WWIITTHH UUSS!! United States Assocation of Rudimental Drummers

Third Annual Convention at Heritage Hotel - Lancaster April 20-22, 2012

Heritage Hotel - Lancaster 500 Centerville Road Lancaster, PA 17601

Call 717-898-2431, ext. 0 or 1-800-223-8963 and ask for USARD Group Rate of $89.00 + 11% tax

Circle One: Member or Student I have enclosed my check/money order in the amount of $ for tickets Make check/money order payable to USARD. Mail to: Charlie Kammer 9301 Innsbrook Way Baltimore, MD 21236

Name: ______Spouse: Children: Address: City: State: Zip: Telephone: Email Address:

USARD members @ $75.00 A $10.00 discount is available for full-time students under the age 18 Dinner for USARD member’s spouse @ $35.00 Children under 19 years old @ $12.50

A full weekend of drumming is planned, including clinic presentations, individuals and chapter groups as well as mass drumming. Be sure you are there for another enjoyable and entertaining USARD drum - mers convention. A Saturday evening dinner picnic buﬀet is included. Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 15

Ancient times 15 HERE yE! H ERE yE! COME ONE , C OME ALL !

By BILL MCgRATH AND The USAF Drum Ensemble com - styles. STEVE yOUNg prised of former members of the Middle River Ancients Drum En - United States Air Force Drum & semble will perform a collection of he 3rd Annual USARD Con - Bugle Corps John Bosworth, Eric Lan - ancient rudimental pieces entitled Just vention will be held on April dis, Bill Mojica, Steve young, Bob Having Fun by Ron Church, Auslese T20, 21 and 22 at the Heritage Zarfoss and guest Sean Landis will by Charlie Terzi and Buck’s Boys by Hotel in Lancaster, PA. Check-in at perform original pieces from the Air Bill Mojica. Players are Bill Mojica, the hotel front desk from 3 to 7 pm Force Drum and Bugle Corps reper - Ron Church, Nick Biscotti, Bill Hart - and then register with USARD in the toire. mann on snare and Charlie Kammer lobby. A social hour and cash bar will Jeff Salisbury returns to further on bass. Bill Mojica and Nick Biscotti run from 5 to 8pm. demonstrate how standard American from the Middle River Drum Ensem - There will be several clinics, demon - drum rudiments relate to the drum ble will perform a snare drum duet strations and performances of great set. He was so interesting last year creatively called Drum Stuff . interest held throughout the entire that we invited him to participate A performance by the Skyliner weekend. Keep in mind however that again. Drum Duet with Joe Fontana and Jack even though there will be clinics on a The Lancers Drum Ensemble, pre - Murray will feature self-composed variety of subjects the major emphasis sented by Bob Zarfoss, will play an original selections from their Skyliner of the weekend will be dedicated to original piece called The Double Duck . Drum Duet repertoire. the art of ancient rope drumming as The New york Drummers Associa - Chew gernandt presents the St. that is what the majority of our mem - tion will perform ancient rudimental Lucy’s Alumni Snare Drum Trio with bership and performances consist of. s tandards in their original form with - a warm-up and an original piece by A Friday night clinic on “Older or out modifications or adaptations. Chew gernandt, followed by a St. Antique Drums” as well as “Rope Players are Tom DeFazio, Ed Kajawa, Lucy's drum solo from 1968 written Drum Tuning & Maintenance” will be Ray Elliott, Bill Mcgrath Jr., Don by John Flowers. held by Jim Ellis of the Cooperman Burns, and Doug Morrow. An evening dinner with special Drum Company. That will be fol - Bill Messerschmidt explores tradi - speakers and specific topics will be lowed by a Mass Drumming Re - tional rudimental drumming and its held in the main ball room on Satur - hearsal in the Ballroom. The relevance from three perspectives: day evening. This will include Life - standards that will be played are: Old one “as applied in its original genre time Membership Awards to the Dan Tucker , Hell on the Wabash , Down - and historical value, two the physical USARD. Also included in the evening fall of Paris , Paddy on the Hand Car , basis of modern rudimental drum - special presentation will be S.F.C. Three Camps and the Devil’s Flute . ming as well as the foundation for ap - Mark Reilly, snare drum section There will be a coffee hour and re - proaches to other areas of percussion leader and production staff percus - hearsal time on Saturday morning. and three the benefits for artistic mu - sion arranger of the 3rd U.S. Infantry We will then welcome all with intro - sical interpretation.” Old guard Fife & Drum Corps. The ductions, announcements and partic - John Bosworth and Jon Quigg will Old guard is the official ceremonial ipant requirements. administer a clinic on “Scottish Pipe unit and escort to the President of the Author and clinician Jim Clark will Band Drumming” called “A Rhythm United States. present an historical perspective on & Rudimental Context.” This clinic Thom Hannum, Associate Director rudimental drumming using excerpts demonstrates how Scottish rudimen - of the Bands at the University of Mas - from his book, Connecticut’s Fife and tal drumming borrowed from and is sachusetts-Amherst, will present the Drum Tradition . now impacting other rudimental Drum Ensemble of cont. on p. 16 Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 16

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membershIP COmmIttee annOunCement Please send in your membership dues to The Company

By SALLy ROCHE will keep running. More importantly, Please be sure to update your con - your membership dues and donations tact information, including your o The Membership of The Com - are crucial in the efforts to preserve phone number, mailing address, and pany of Fifers & Drummers : and ensure that the history and arti - email. T facts housed in The Company building Lastly, if you know anyone who was We would like to wish all of our will be preserved and protected for fu - a member or who may be a potential members and friends a very Happy ture generations to come. member, please encourage them to be New year. Consider paying your dues via Pay - a part of this very important organiza - As January draws to a close, I would Pal. The link is available through The tion. like to mention that individual dues Company website. you can also mail If you have any questions or con - are now due. Dues statements are your check to The Company address: cerns, send me a note and I will do my being prepared as the Ancient Times best to find the answers. goes to press and will be sent within The Company of Fifers & Drummers Sally Roche is the chair of the Member - the next few days. P.O. Box 277 ship Committee. Please refer to page one The Company relies on your member - Ivoryton, Ct. 06442-0277 for her contact information. ship dues to ensure this organization

cont. from p. 15 HEALy FLUTE the Minuteman Band. Members of the USARD will partic - COMPANy ipate in the Mass Drumming Perform - ance and play the old standards listed Skip Healy previously. On Sunday April 22, the Annual Fife & Flute Maker Membership Meeting will be held in the Board Room. All members are Featuring hand-crafted instruments urged to participate in the third an - of the finest quality. nual meeting for the new calendar year. Breakfast is on one’s own avail - Also specializing in repairs and restoration able from 9 to 11 am in the main ball - of modern and wooden Fifes and Flutes room. See you on April 20 – 22, 2012 in Lancaster, PA for the Third Annual On the web: www.skiphealy.com USARD Convention! Phone/Fax: (401) 935-9365 Bill McGrath and Steve Young are co- Email: [email protected] presidents of the USARD. 5 Division Street Box 2 3 East greenwich, RI 02818 Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 17

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Ancient Times submission guidelines Please submit articles and high-resolution photographs electroni - cont. from back cover cally to the editor: Registration begins February 1, 2012. Camp [email protected] is open to rising fifth graders through age or [email protected] 18. See website for complete details. Do include a brief 1-3 sentence fife-and-drum-related bio with your July 20-21, 2012 – deeP rIver, Ct – deep article so our readers can know more about our writers. Do include river ancient muster your photographer’s name with any photo submissions. Host: Deep River Junior Ancients Fife & Drum Corps In the case of material that cannot be submitted electronically, please Tattoo: 7pm on July 20th contact the editor at the above email address or call (508) 847-4460 to Muster: 11am parade on July 21st followed make special submission arrangements. Do not just mail material to by muster and jam session The Company as the editor lives 100 miles away and cannot easily get Location: Devitt’s Field, Deep River, CT to the mailbox. Email: [email protected] Website: www.drja.org upcoming Issue 136 submission deadline: march 31, 2012 July 22, 2012 – IvOrytOn, Ct – Company executive meeting & museum Open house Time: Sunday July 22nd Executive Committee Meeting: 11am Museum Open House: 12pm Jam session to follow ImPOrtant: ObItuarIes Location: The Museum of Fife & Drum / If you know of a member of the fife and drum community who Company HQ , Ivoryton, CT passes away, please notify the Ancient Times immediately so we can Contact: The Company , 860-767-2237 ensure publication of a timely and thoughtful obituary. Email: companyhq@companyoffifeand - drum.org Website: www.companyoffifeanddrum.org Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 18

18 Ancienttimes Percussive Arts Society Hosts

By ROBIN ENgELMAN I have long admired the quality of Colonial Williamsburg n November 2002 a concert of fife, drum and pipe players so an added special treat for me was meeting once music was presented during the Percussive Arts Soci- again John C. Moon, one of the early Music Masters of Iety International Convention in Columbus, Ohio before Colonial Williamsburg and a dour, but knowledgeable an audience of 2,800 people. Scotsman. This concert was the most comprehensive survey of field Moon and Pedigo began their presentation with an drumming in the 42 year history of the Percussive Arts So- Arigot - pipe tune from Arbeau's 1589 Orchesography. As ciety and ignited within the Percussive Arts Society mem- illustrated in Arbeau, Pedigo played pipe while accompa- bership a new appreciation for their drumming heritage. nying himself on Tabor. More than 220 drummers, fifers and pipers had ~:_.... ~--c.·1::1:itf.t -.,l ti waived any fee to participate in the 2002 concert rnr~i;;!l. _ !fl ~ and three years later again waived fees for their John C. moon, left, and lance Pedigo, right, performances being included in a DVD titled The j on pipe and tabor. Historic Drummers Heritage Concert. All proceeds from the DVD sales would be de- posited in a Drummers Heritage Concert Fund to ~ underwrite future Heritage Events. For more details please visit http://robinengel- man.com/discography/ The first Heritage Event took place this past No- vember 2011 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Serendipi- tously it coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Percussive Arts Society. The Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums representing the Virginia State Military garrison under the di- Moon is the author of a number of books and no mean rection of Lance Pedigo had opened the historic concert in historian. He explained the famous British March on 2002 and had the honour of presenting the first Heritage Charles the 1st (1625-49). Warrant and Lance played the Event. beating as well as the Poing strokes that end each phrase. Lance had chosen “The Art of Drumming” for his pres- Though many scholars insist an accurate deciphering of entation topic and had prepared slides which showed a this March is impossible today, Moon’s beating was con- chronology of drumming music and techniques from the vincing. late 16th century to the 1861 Civil War in the United States. Presenting the british march The Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps consists of students between the ages of 10 and 18 years. One criteria for membership in the corps is that prior to joining they must not be able to read music or play a musical instrument. By the time they muster out, the corps members will have memorized 150 fife tunes and their drum beatings. Lance had brought four fifers, four snare drummers, a bass drummer and drum major. As the audience began to congregate, three corps members played folk tunes on fife and penny whistle accom- panied by frame drums. Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 19

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Pedigo interpreted some of the tablature in examples of manuscripts projected on a screen. The Colonial Williamsburg Then followed a lovely presentation of fife All photography courtesy of Robin tunes taken from historic drum manuals and Fifes & Drums Engelman Prefent stellar drum beatings written by Lance Pedigo. "THE ART OF DRUMMING'' A Drummer's Heritage Program Event demonstration of historical drum manuals Percuffive cA"rts Jociety, Indianapolis, Indiana Jaturday, :J-0,vember I2, 2or I at I p.m. Mulic taken from: I 589 Thoinot Arbeau's, Orchefagrapby Wa,herwoman's Branle 1632 The Royal Warrant The English March 1 708 Danican Philidor's Partition de Tambotm &c. L'Air des Fifres

1780 Longman &Broderip D rummers Calf Reveille The Mother and Thru Camps 1797 Benjamin Clark's Drum Book. .Duncan's Dance , 782 Gardner's Drum Ms Baltimore 1818 Levi Loveriog's The Drummers Ajfiftant Wajhington1 March r782 Gardner's Drnm Ms Valley Forge

18 1 2 Charles A.lhworth's The New, Ufafal Complete Syftem of Drum Beatings 3 D uty Calls .Drummers Call Pioneer's March The Roafl Beefof Old England 1815 Samuel Potter's The Art ofBea ting the Drum &treat March 1817 Rumrille &Holton Bo.fton March 1820 David Hazeltine's Inftruttions for Martial Mu.fie The Girl .T left behind me Colonial williamsburg fife and drum contingent r826 Alvin Robinson's Ma_ffochufetts Collection ofMartial Mufic Volume J Haymaker Road to Bofl.on 1862 Col. H.C. Harr's Drum and Fife Inftructor Yankee Doodle A MEDLEY OF TUNES TAKEN FROM OUR REPERTOIRE Hey Johnny Ct>pe, are ye Wauk.en ' Yet?

williamsburg snare drummers

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20 Ancient times JammIn’ In gettysburg

left, right, & bottom left: Jam sessions in gettysburg Photography courtesy of Patrick Jones

By PATRICK JONES memorate the soldiers buried in the many of us have done. My fife and very November, hundreds of cemetery there. Today, the annual drum “jamming” experiences had spectators, re-enactors, and fife gettysburg Remembrance Day Pa - been limited to the concerts and per - Eand drum enthusiasts head to rade is held on the closest Saturday to formances put on with the Camp the small southeastern Pennsylvania the original address date. Chase Fifes and Drums, of which I town of gettysburg. When most peo - I have only been a participant in the am a member. And, even with my ple think about gettysburg, they parade, and jam sessions, since 2006. long history of drumming in Junior think of the three-day battle that My good friends Tom and Alex Kuhn Drum and Bugle Corps, I was not en - many historians describe as the asked me to join them for the festivi - tirely confident in what was going to “turning point” of the war: one in ties and I jumped at the opportunity happen over the weekend. All I knew which almost 50,000 Americans were to hit the calfskin with them. The trip was that there was a parade and a killed, wounded or missing. Far to gettysburg is a short one for me; few chances to play with members of fewer Americans think of the speech living in Pittsburgh, PA has its perks. other corps who came for the parade. that was given a mere four and a half I was not really sure what to expect as There has been a long tradition of months later by then President Abra - I drove down the PA turnpike, listen - “jam sessions” in gettysburg before I ham Lincoln. Lincoln’s speech was ing to my fife and drum CDs, tapping joined in the fun. These sessions are given on November 19, 1863 to com - on the steering-wheel, as I’m sure well known to those who attend an - nually and are much like clockwork. Usually on Friday nights, members of the fife and drum community meet outside of The Dobbin House, a struc - ture that predates the battle by about 87 years, and is today a restaurant and bed and breakfast. This session begins with one or two musicians, and slowly grows to crowds of easily 30 – 40 participants. All facets of drum and fife repertoire are explored, not strictly Civil War period tunes. The dress for the night is also up to the individual with many arriving in full 19th century military attire, and others in North Face Jackets and gloves. I have even seen a few flasks being passed around the jam circle to take the chill out. Most wear anything Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 21

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Remembrance Day... An Annual Tribute to the Civil War Dead and Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address

to keep warm, as is the custom in get - citement of performing makes for a muffled drums. Clearly, a very period tysburg in November. Even if the wild rush of endorphins that lasts the sound and authentically correct inter - weather is not agreeable, the people whole weekend. pretation, but one that is not totally are, with the number of spectators Afterwards, everyone heads to accepted by many in the fife and growing as the music progresses. The O’Rorke's Pub. The real fun has usu - drum community. crowd fluctuates from a large encom - ally already begun by the time the pa - All-in-all the weekend is a fantastic passing circle, to passerby who stop rade is over, with the Second way to get your fife and drum fix, so - for just a minute or two to look at the Maryland Fifes and Drums playing cialize with friends, and pay tribute to oddity of musicians. on the patio. As more and more history. If you are a newcomer or vet - The following morning, each corps groups finish the parade, the patio eran of the Remembrance Day festiv - meets with their respective units to quickly turns into a sea of fifers and ities, you can’t help but enjoy the march in the Remembrance Day Pa - drummers. With both sides of the sights, sounds, and fantastic people in rade. The parade takes you down Bal - patio being surrounded by brick gettysburg, PA. timore St. and then to Steinwehr Ave. walls, and a concrete floor, the Patrick Jones is a member of Camp where it ends at the old visitor center acoustics are ideal for loud, loud Chase Fifes and Drums and lives in Pitts - parking lot. The parade cannot be music. Maybe not the very best listen - burgh, PA. He played in several DCI more than one mile long, but it is usu - ing environment, but surely an im - drum & bugle corps and is a graduate of ally packed with a fantastic crowd of pressive sound is created for all those Edinboro University (PA) with a BA in cheering spectators. It seems to me in attendance. It has seemed in the Elementary Education/Minor Music. that they are a very appreciative past year or two, many “skin fid - Patrick received his Masters Degree from crowd because their yells and dlers” are coming to town with un- Duquesne University. screams can be heard over the ten fifes and ten drummers with whom I participate. I have marched in many parades around the United States, but SweetH eA rt flut eS there is a special feeling, one that hits 32 South Maple Street, Enfield, CT 06082 me deep inside, when marching fIfeS: Colonial & Civil War models; Cloos repros; through gettysburg. A combination Folk & Modern “engi neered” - in many keys of knowing the historical significance fluteS: Irish style - keyed or keyless; Baroque, and Renaissance of what took place there, and the ex - wHIStleS: D&C - For Jigs & Reels! Send for Brochure and/or Antique & Used flute list Tel:(860) 749-4494 Email: [email protected] On the Web: www.sweetheartflute.com Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 22

22 Ancient times THE COMPANy SEEKS FOUNDATION FUNDINg

Applications are being submitted for funding of Company projects. Volunteers are welcome to help expand and improve the efforts.

Editor’s Note: Bill Maling is a Life Member of The Company and a member of the Executive Committee, as well as being Contributing Editor of Ancient Times. He is a snare drummer in both Lancraft and Camp Chase. Bill has raised money from foundations for two music groups and an air museum in Ohio. He has handled efforts to raise money from corporate sources for Lancraft and The Company under the Connecticut Neighborhood Assistance Act.

By BILL MALINg the museum and are still hopeful that nity foundations, the CCP database some financial aid will be available in includes many industrial, corporate, fforts in sending grant requests 2012, in spite of the current budget commercial and banking foundations, to Connecticut foundations for crunch in the state of Connecticut. many of whom have websites and in - Efinancial support of Company We have tried for three years to ob - vite online applications. However, the projects have had some modest suc - tain Camp grants from our local com - “hit rate” in finding foundations who cess in recent years… and we are look - munity foundation, the Middlesex might be interested in receiving Com - ing for a local Company volunteer to County Community Foundation, but pany applications is very low… per - expand the search for outside fund - without success. The MCCF runs a se - haps only 2% or 3%…and only a few ing. Most of The Company annual rev - ries of educational seminars on of those would actually result in enues are from “inside” sources like fundraising that would be of interest grants for Company projects. In the dues and contributions from individ - to any Company volunteer who lives foundation grant efforts, you get more ual members and member corps. To near Middletown. getting some re - rejections than acceptance, partly help with the long term financial peated “face time” with MCCF might based on the current priorities and health of The Company , we need to de - help them better understand the Com - budget of a particular foundation. velop more “outside” sources to share pany organization and mission. A Most foundations do not give the financing load. facet of the effort difficult to accom - money for annual operating expenses, Over the past several years, Cap plish from Ohio! capital needs or endowment funds. Corduan and I succeeded in getting There are about 1,400 foundations in Most prefer giving for projects or pro - $10,000 for the 2008 to 2011 Junior Fife Connecticut and all the required ap - grams, particularly those having edu - and Drum Camps from three different plication information is available on cational content, like the Junior Camp. foundations. These amounts supple - the website of the Connecticut Council In these difficult economic times, ment the primary funding source of for Philanthropy, accessible from any much focus is given these days by the Camp, the tuition payments from library in Connecticut. After searching foundations to projects supporting so - the kids plus corps donations. For the this database with key words and cial needs and the underserved popu - 2011 Junior Camp, $1,000 was re - phrases like… museum, music library, lations in our society. ceived from The george A. and grace heritage preservation, arts, culture, To date, we have focused our efforts L. Long Foundation and $2,000 from youth education, etc… the foundation mostly on the smaller Connecticut The William and Alice Mortensen candidate list is substantially reduced. foundations. The national list of all US Foundation. More than half of the foundations foundations is available in the Foun - This year, Marty Sampson and I ap - don’t accept applications and/or only dation Directory found in some of the plied to the Connecticut Humanities give to pre-selected organizations. larger CT libraries, but finding a “tar - Council for financial help with an Many other foundations have strict get”… non-CT, foundation interested archive project of getting all back is - geographical limitations or only give in funding specialty museums like the sues of Ancient Times digitized and for social, healthcare, scholarship or Company , is a formidable task…. the available online. Marty and I met with other human need type purposes. p r o v e r b i a l n e e d l e i n a h a y s t a c k . C o m - the CHC Program Director in July at In addition to private and commu - pany financial needs are cont. on p. 24 Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 23

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By KEVIN BROWN will take any excess drainage coming The Company of Fifers & Drummers ell, here we are in the dead from the North Main Street upland Headquarters and Museum. I just of winter and as of yet the area that would normally target the thank the Almighty that we have a Wsnow gods have taken a building, and deposit it in the wet - younger generation involved in The vacation. Mind you I am not com - lands where it will flow away to wher - Company such as my daughter and plaining, but the older I get the less ever it may go. I don’t much care; all I Company Secretary Sara Brown, who is my affection for the white stuff. The know is that it will no longer threaten working to implement the Skype con - bright spot in viewing this barren and our building. yard repair will take nection. cold landscape is that spring can’t be place in the spring, and it will be mas - The kitchen work is still ongoing. All too far away, which means that the terfully handled by Art Hutchinson electrical work is just about com - muster season will be upon us in noth - and his landscaping company. I just pleted. We are doing a floor plan so ing flat. I can feel it now, the sun shin - want to give a shout out to both Peter that we can decide on the location of ing down with me sitting in a camp and Art for their professional help in the ovens, and where to lay the two chair and a cold ale in my grip. Life is conquering a problem that has 220 amp lines. After that, we will good. Anyhow, enough daydreaming. plagued the building for a number of move for approval by the Town of I hope everyone had a great holiday years. Essex Building Inspector, and then season and that the prospect for a Ever since the beginning of our own - sheet rock and flooring will follow. A prosperous 2012 is in the offing. ership of the hall, there have been sev - big thank you goes out to Dan Riley of On the Company Hall front, which eral nagging little problems that just the Ancient Mariners, and member of is the real reason for this article, the seem to never go away. One was the the Executive Committee for taking battle still rages to keep our precious phone system and its pattern of al - the time to do the work. He has been building in an upright position. Fi - ways going south at the wrong time. I my right hand man of late to help han - nally, after dealing with many tried to do some separating of tangled dle a lot of ongoing repairs. So thanks weather related delays, the process of lines that emanate from the down - Dan and keep up the good work. My drainage remediation got started. On stairs office, but the only thing I got other handyman, Dave Hooghkirk, the week after Thanksgiving, Peter out of it were sore knees. I was then Trustee, has recently had knee sur - Andrews and his sidekick Andrews informed that we have our own low gery. Dave, hope you are feeling bet - Perry Construction showed up in voltage guy as a member of The Com - ter and can’t wait to see you up and trucks with excavators in tow to start pany , and I promptly got him involved around. the work. It only took them a couple to fix the long-running phone prob - In other goings on at your Company of days to correct what has been a lem. Thanks to Drew Narducci of the Hall, painting continues with the help monumental problem, and put any fu - Deep River Seniors, we now have a of Sara Brown and Maureen Mason. ture flooding of the hall in the properly wired and working phone They are working on the entry way rearview mirror. Of course the yard system in the building. New phones into the Club Room and are still look - now looks like a scarred moonscape, have been installed along with DSL ing for recent Corps pictures of mem - but not to worry as that problem will from AT&T, and we are now part of ber Corps to frame and hang up there. be taken care of when spring arrives. the 21st century information system. If you have one and want to donate it, Ditches were dug and pipe was laid Wi-Fi is also present and we can now go to The Company website (address along the front yard area and then hopefully hook up to Skype for out of follows), click on Sara Brown’s email down the side of the building to the town Executive Committee members, address and let her know. Progress wetlands. This is the area where the helping them to be better heard at has been slow in collecting them so summer concerts are performed. It meetings. Finally, the future arrives at let’s speed things up cont. on p. 24 Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 24

Ancient times 24 cont. from p. 23 and contact her. By the way, we have eral segments from Charles Dickens A you has a personal and emotional plenty of brushes with your name on Christmas Carol . It was followed by a share in this piece of property. I re - it, so let me know when you can come jam session and fun was had by all. member some of the good ole talks I down and help out. Again, my phone Brendan hopes to make this an annual used to have with our late and great number is 860-399-7572 and my email event, so if you missed it this time friend Ed Olsen. As all of you know, address is [email protected]. I around, then be there for the 2012 ren - he lived and breathed fife and drum. will gladly open the hall for you and dition. It was in his makeup and involved give you something to do. For the So, as you can see, there has been a every cell in his body. He once told me schedules of upcoming work week - lot going on at the building. A group “Kevin, look around at this museum ends, please go to The Company web site of very dedicated and helpful people of ours. Do you know how lucky we www.companyoffifersanddrum - have taken some valuable time out of are to have something like this? There mers.org and check the events calen - their lives to try and make a differ - are organizations throughout the dar for dates. If there aren’t any listed, ence. you can be a part of that restora - country that would kill to have a place keep checking back until they are. tion express that continues to roll like this.” you know, our old buddy If you weren’t in attendance at the through the jobs that need to be done. Ed was as right then as his words still premier of The Company Holiday Con - Come to the work weekends that are are today. We are lucky. We are fortu - cert, then you missed a wonderful scheduled. Call me or email me if you nate. So let’s work together to pre - evening of holiday music by a lot of can’t make it and there is some other serve what we have. A few people very talented people. It was put to - time you can. If you live far away and can’t do all the work, but many people gether by Brendan Mason of the Con - your physical presence is impossible, together can accomplish a lot. So be necticut Patriots and member of the go to the website and click on dona - one of the many, get excited and par - Executive Committee . Brendan tions and give a few dollars to help ticipate. It is your Company Hall. brought on board several members of out. Any donation, no matter the size Kevin Brown is a member of the Ancient the Patriots, Ameri-Clique, The Regu - goes a long way in helping to preserve Mariners, Director of the Junior Colonials lators and Ancient Mariners to put on what we have. Whether it’s enough to of Westbrook, member of the Executive a rather unique Christmas Story. All buy a can of paint or purchase a big Committee of The Company of Fifers & the wonderful music from carols to ticket item, it is dearly appreciated Drummers, and Facilities Manager at The original holiday arrangements was and will be acknowledged. Remem - Company Headquarters and Museum. tied together with a narrative of sev - ber, this is your building. Every one of

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too small in dollar magnitude to get funding in the future, particularly if attention from the very large national the Company develops into “more of ImPOrtant nOtICe foundations. a museum” and becomes a potential We have explored some other na - destination location for visitors, When your mailing address changes, tional funding sources like the Insti - group bus tours, more school chil - please notify us promptly! tute of Library and Museum Services, dren visits, etc. The Post Office does not advise us. but there are some difficulties and If you have any suggestions on limitations in dealing with these gov - foundation fundraising or want to Write: Membership Committee P.O. ernment agencies. We have also volunteer to help The Company ex - Box 227, Ivoryton, CT 06442-0227 looked at grant requirements and po - pand the effort to get more outside or email: membership@companyoffife - tential of the Connecticut Commis - funding, please contact me at drum - anddrum.org sion on Culture and Tourism, (some [email protected]. Copies of sample Com - programs partially funded by The pany grant applications and the National Endowment for the Arts), necessary exhibits are available to which might be a source of some those who want to help. Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 25

Ancient times 25 Item# Description Qty Price Total The Company BK001 The Company Music Book - Vol.I $19 Sto re BK002 The Company Music Book - Vol. II $24 BK003 The Company Music Book - Vol. III $15 Mail Order Form BK024 The Company Music Book - Vol. IV $15 BK004 Camp Duty Music Book (CFD) $18 BK005 The Muffled Drum (CFD) $5 shIP tO: BK006 Tunes of the Hudon Valley - Vol.I (Attanasio & Grady) $10 Name BK007 Tunes of the Hudon Valley - Vol.II (Attanasio & Grady) $14 BK008 Camp Dupont Music Book $7 Address BK009 Chas. T. Kirk Fife Music Book $15 BK010 American Rudimental Method Drum Book (Classey) $7

s BK011 Better, Stronger, Faster (Bill Hart) $10

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o BK012 25 Tunes to make Your Face fall Off (Lussier) $7 B

c i BK013 John McDonagh Fife Instruction Manual $12

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M BK014 110 Military Drum Duets (Munier) $12 State BK015 40 Rudimental Drum Beats (Perrilloux) $7 BK016 14 Modern Contest Solos (Pratt) $7 Zip BK017 The New Pratt Book - Contest Solos for Snare Drum ( Pratt) $10 BK018 Rudimental Solos for Accomplished Drummers (Pratt) $13 ImPOrtant! In case we need to BK019 The Solo Snare Drummer - Vol. I (Pratt - Schinstine - Moore) $10 BK020 Sturtze Drum Book $19 contact you about your order: BK021 Sons of Liberty Music Book $14 Phone: BK022 Roy Watrous Book $12 BK026 John J. McDonagh Fife & Drum Band Comp. & Arr. $15 Email: BK027 John J. McDonagh Advanced Fifing Comp. & Arr. $15 BK028 The Swiss Drummer Book w/ CD *NEW* *EXCLUSIVE* $40 Make Check Or Money CD001 The Company Music Book CD - Vol. I (set of 2) $16 s

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C CD002 The Company Music Book CD - Vol II (set of 2) $16

c The Company of Fifers & i s CD003 Camp Lincoln (Emerick) $16 u

Drummers, Inc. M CD004 200 Years of Fife & Drum in America (N.Y. Regimentals) $16 Please send this order form AP001 The Company Cap, embroidered, light blue or navy blue $16 with your payment to: AP002 The Company Cap, screened $15 roberta armstead AP004 The Company Polo Shirt, blue - (circle size) S M L XL XXL $24 attn: the Company store AP005 The Company Sweat Shirt, blue - (circle size) S M L XL XXL $22

l AP006 The Company T-Shirt, blue - (circle size) S M L XL XXL $12 e r

95 main street a AP006N T-shirt, natural, CFD Logo (circle size) M L XL XXL $12 p p

deep river, Ct A AP007 The Company T-Shirt, blue, Child - (circle size) M L $10 06417 AP008 T-Shirt, natural, Flag Drum - (circle size) L XL $14 AP009 Jaybird T-Shirt - (circle size) M L XL XXL $12 AP012 The Company White Polo Shirt (M, L, XL, XXL) *NEW* $24 Shipping & Handling (add $2 for XXL on all shirts above) OM002 The Company Lapel Pin $4 up to $9.99 $4 OM003 The Company Museum Pin $3 $10-$49.99 $6 OM004 Muster Up a Meal Cookbook (CFD) $3 e

s OM005 The Company Patch, embroidered $4 i

$50-$99.99 $8 d n OM006 The Company Portfolio, blue nylon, zippered $8 a

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r OM008 The Company Window Decal $1 e

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r OM011 John McDonagh in Fife & Drum, A Biography $5 e h t OM012 The Company Mug (Pewtarex) $30 O OM013 Spirit of ‘76 Shot Glass $4 Total Amount Due OM014 The Company Coffee Mug $5 (from total at right) OM015 The Company Water Bottle w/ Clip (blue) *NEW* $5 SubTotal $ Shipping & Handling (see chart at left) $ $ Connecticut Residents Add 6% Sales Tax (Apparel not taxable) $ TOTAL $ Issue 135:Layout 1 1/27/2012 11:16 AM Page 26

Ancient times P.O. Box 277 Ivoryton, CT 06442-0277 through July 2012 CALENDAR

may 4-5, 2012 – leXIngtOn, ma – lexington tattoo & muster Host: William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps Tattoo: 7pm on Friday May 4th at Minute Man National Historical Park Visitor Cen - ter, followed by a jam session Muster: 12pm parade on May 5th from Trainer Field on Battle Road to the Visi - tor’s Center and 12:30pm muster, followed by jam session Location: Minute Man National Historical Park, Lexington, MA Contact: Carmin Calabrese, 508-278-2803 C.P. Burdick & Son, Inc. Email: [email protected] Website: williamdiamondjrs.org Four Generations of Warmth Invitation only Fuel Oil/Excavation Services 24-Hour Service June 23, 2012 – mOnrOe, mI – 860-767-8402 national muster Host: 1st Michigan Colonial Fife & Drum Corps Main Street, Ivoryton Time: Saturday June 23, 2012 Connecticut 06442 Location: Monroe, MI Contact: Scott Lonsdale 313-702-8008 [email protected] or Mark Logsdon 586-247-1775 [email protected] Other: Monroe, MI as well as being the hometown of general george Armstrong Custer, is home to the War of 1812 River Raisin Battlefield, America’s newest Na - tional Park. Monroe, located on Lake Erie, is in southeast Michigan off I-75 just 14 miles north of Toledo, OH. Camping is available and a muster lunch will be pro - vided. There is also a possibility of a small travel stipend being provided to the at - tending corps.

July 17-20, 2012 – IvOrytOn, Ct – Junior fife & drum Camp Host: The Company of Fifers & Drummers Time: Tuesday July 17 – Friday July 20, followed by DRAM performance Location: The Incarnation Center, Ivory - ton, CT Contact: Cap Corduan, captainclam@com - cast.net Website: www.jrfdc.org cont. on p. 17