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unusual facts about Drum Major



Major's

Its logo featured a distinctive drum major, and its merchandise was geared to mainly a lower-middle-class customer base, much like Kmart today.

Smush

(For example, the chain might become "Leap Yeardrum Major Tommy Thompson Twin Cities," by combining "Leap Year," "Ear Drum," "Drum Major," "Major Tom," "Tommy Thompson," "Thompson Twins," and "twin cities.")

Winter Springs High School

The Winter Springs High School Band of Gold is under the direction of Adam McIntyre and Drum Majors Abigail Johnson and Omar Lawand.The 2012 Halftime show is based upon music from the movie The Incredibles.


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Chuck Knipp

Knipp is a 1979 graduate of West Orange-Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where he served as drum major of the high school band.

Drum Major General

The Drum Major General was a royal appointment in the British Army used from the mid-17th century and into the 18th century.

Fanfare band

The modern day ensemble would be born in 1935 as the Band and Bugles of the French Air Force under Claude Laty, the then director of music, who created the modern day fanfare band and its standard instrumentation as the band created its own fanfare and bugle section with then drum major Maurice Bonnard.

Venerando Pulizzi

He first succeeded William Farr (1799-1804) and Charles S. Ashworth (1804-16) as acting Leader/Drum Major from Oct. 17, 1816 to Dec. 10, 1817, until the new Leader/Drum Major John Powley enlisted.

Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association

After nearly seventy years of Highland musical contests in Australia, it was at the Maryborough gathering in 1924, Drum Major Lew Zilles OAM ED, broadcast the intent to form a group for coordinating Victorian pipe band affairs.