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• The American Brass Band Movement: A Historical Overview by Jon Newsom
• The American Musical Instrument Society
• Antique Sound Workshop - Historical Brass Instruments
• Bad Säckingen Trumpet Museum
• The Band Museum
• Band Music from the Civil War Era
• Bands and Music of the American Civil War Soldiers
• Bands and Musicians of the Civil War
• Bands at the Pan-American Exposition 1901
• Bands of the Pan-American Exposition - (Frank Cipolla)
• Basel Music Museum
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
• Beaver's Brass Bands, Utah
• Bell Engravings pictures of rare, old & new, euphonium & baritone bell engravings
• Bibliography of writings about historic brass instruments
• Brass and Military Music Research - Dr. Friedrich Anzenberger
• Brass Instruments - the Trombone and Cornet
• The Brass Players Museum - Antique Brass Musical Instruments - now open in Springfield, MA. Please contact David Neill, tbn8@aol.com with details of any instruments.
• A Brief History of the Conn Company (1874-present)
• A Brief History of the Military Drum leading to the evolution of Pipe Band Drumming
• Britain and her Military Music
• The British Library National Sound Archive
• British Library guide for music researchers
• British Library Music Collections
• British Military Band Histories
• British Military Music Origins
• BUBL - brass instrument resources
• Christian Mission Historical Association
• C. G. Conn - Brass Instrument Model Numbers And Dates Of Manufacture 1919 - 1965
• Cimcim International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections
• Cité de la Musique- French Museum of Music
• Civil War Bands - by Robert Garofalo and Mark Elrod
• Civil War Music
• Collecting Old Euphoniums
• The Complete Works Of John Philip Sousa
• The Concert Band - information, hints, guidance etc.
• Concert Programmes - Database providing descriptions of concert programme collections held by leading libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland
• The Cornet and Patrick Gilmore - an instrument and its civil war virtuoso
• Cornet Compendium - The History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet
• Cornet Connection - collection of cornets, trumpets, flugelhorns, and a few other things
• Cornets and Quicksteps - Susquehanna County Bands (PA)
• Corno da Caccia
• Deutsches Museum - Brass instruments
• Early Brass links
• Early Military Bands in Britain
• Early Music links
• The Early Music Shop (Bradford & London)
• Early wind instruments - with an excellent collection of early tuba photos
• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
• Edison Company - Early band recording of the Fifth Regiment March - 1889
• Elements of Brass Instrument Construction - National Music Museum
• Elgar Birthplace Museum
• Euphonium Solos - Recordings from the Past
• European Military Music
• Evolution, Physics and Usage of the Wagner Tuba
• Fiske Musical Instrument Museum
• Flugelhorn Ancient & Modern by Stan Lippeatt
• Folklife Museum of Trentino - Brass bands and musical instruments
• The French Connection - Origin and Early Days of Périnet-Valved Bb Cornet Design, by Niles Eldredge
• Galpin Society - for the history of musical instruments
• Geography of Community Bands in Virginia
• Graham Fine Antique Brass Instruments - California, USA
• Historic Brass Society
• Historical Percussion
• Historique Sur Le Cornet A Pistons
• History of Courtois instruments
• History of JW Pepper's - US music publisher and instrument maker/supplier
• History Of The Waites Of Lynn
• History of the Wind Band - by Dr. Stephen L. Rhodes
• Horn Collector - Eric Totman's Vintage Valved Horns Collection
• Horn Supremacy - all about brass instruments
• Horn-u-copia - dedicated to collecting information on obscure, antique, and out of production brass instruments
• Images of Civil War Bands
• The Impact Of Band Music In The 20th Century - by John R. Davis
• Israelite House of David - Musical Traditions
• Israelite House of David Bands
• Instrument Encyclopedia - Musical Heritage Network
• Instruments à Vent Anciens - Early Wind Instruments
• Instrumentation of the Civil War Brass Band
• Iowa Band Museum
• Jean-Baptiste Lemire - composer and conductor (1867-1945)
• Jerome Gatehouse Collection - a military band archive
• J.W. York Company - Research Site: a manufacturer of band instruments in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1882-1971
• The Joe R. & Joella F. Utley Collection of Brass Instruments - National Music Museum
• Library of Congress (American Memory) - Collection of Band Music from the Civil War Era
• Mainly Military - a radio series for the British Forces Broadcasting Service's second channel (BFBS2)
• The March - as a music form
• Metzler Brass - Collecting and restoring vintage brasswinds.
• Militärmusiksamfundet med Svenskt Marscharkiv - Swedish Military Music and March Archive
• Military Music Archive
• Millennium Project - 300 Years of Military Music (1700-2000)
• Museum of Making Music
• Museum of Music History - Budapest
• Music in the Air - Researching and Recording the History of Music In the Royal Air Force
• Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
• Musically Functional Porcelain Bugles
• National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments - University of South Dakota
• The Natural Trumpet Resource
• New South Wales Police Concert Band Centenary 1895-1995
• Olds Central - information on F.E. Olds and Son trumpets and cornets
• Ophicleide.com - dedicated to the performance and study of the Ophicleide
• Ophicleide.de
• Ophicleide Directory
• The Original Sousaphone
• Original vintage horns played by the Olde Towne Brass
• Origins.net - genealogical data for online family history research
• Le Petit Musée des Cuivres de Thoard
• Phil's "Old and Odd" Brass Instrument Gallery
• Pifarri - medieval ensembles
• Proprietary Serial Number Lists
• Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM) - annotated index to 19th-century music periodicals.
• Royal Northern College of Music Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
• Ruysink family and brassband music
• Salvation Army Instrument Making - A Short History
• Saxhorns - the primary brass instrument of civil war military bands
• Schloss Kremsegg Musicial Instrument Museum
• Serpent website
• Shrine to Music Museum - Checklist of European Brass Instruments Made Before 1800
• Some American band march composers
• Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments - Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Studies for the History of Wind Music - Peter Joas (in german)
• TapsBugler.com - Taps and the Bugle
• TempoSenzaTempo - A photo gallery of timeless musicians
• Town Waits
• Trumpet Collection- Old cornets, flugels, cornopeans for sale
• Tuba Museum
• Vintage Brass - Old Trumpets Cornets Flugelhorns etc.
• Vintage Brasswind Reproductions
• Vintage Cornets - Images and information on the collection and restoration of vintage cornets
• Waits
• Wanhat Wasket - A unique mobile exhibition of Finnish historical brass instruments, uniforms and photographs.
• Women's Bands (Dr. Jill M. Sullivan, Arizona State University)
• World Military Bands - the heritage of military bands - history and more.

Bandstands History

• Bandstands of the Pan-American Exposition 1901
• Bandstands on Pagoda Lake, Forest Park, St Louis, USA
• Fort Steele Bandstand, Canada
• Hunewell Bandstand Story
• Post Bandstand at Fort Douglas Heritage Commons
• Soham Bandstand
• Southport Bandstand
• Vintage Bandstands