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

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 ...

Eamonn O'Keeffe argues that regimental bands first experimented with all-brass formats in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. While wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets ...

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 ...