Talk:Military band

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[edit] NBC?

From the article: "Regular British Army musicians are all members of the Corps of Army Music. As a secondary role they are trained to work in NBC 'Casualty Decontamination Areas'." - NBC is Nuke, Bio, Chemical? --Badger151 18:19, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I would assume so. Hmm. Hadn't noticed that before. — BQZip01 — ^talk 01:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bias

This article in its current form sems somewhat Amero-centric, British Bands contained winds for some time before WWI - Gustav Holst's suite for miltary band were wrtten in 1909 and 1911. David Underdown (talk) 09:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Havign done a quick bit of looking around, these may help redress the balance slightly History of the Corps of Army Music, History of the Royal School of Military Music, Information and reference for the Royal Marines Band Service, Royal Air Force music. David Underdown (talk) 09:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't see anywhere in this article where wind instruments were excluded in any way. Do you mean woodwinds? — BQZip01 — ^talk 17:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Woodwind, yes, sorry for not being clear. The article appears to suggest that they only appeared in military bands after WWI, whereas, the links I've given above suggest that they first appeared in Prussian (where strings were also used, even in marching bands), and then British bands during the 18th century. I didn't realise there was a difference in British and American usage over this, wind is often used as short for woodwind eg School of Wind, Brass and Percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music. David Underdown (talk) 18:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)