Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

Taking advantage of new instrument designs developed at home and in Continental Europe, a number of other regiments had ...

Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major ...

The military began to experiment with all-brass bands from the 1810s ... It was previously believed the brass instrument groups began as a civilian and exclusively northern creation, with roots ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...