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Book/Printed Material Compleat instructions for the fife containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs & c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments

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  • Compleat instructions for the fife containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs & c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for T. Skillern, [ca. 1780]

Headings

  • -  Fife--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
  • -  Fife music--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  An earlier edition, London, D. Rutherford [1756?] has title: The compleat tutor for the fife.
  • -  Includes military marches and bugle calls arr. for fife (p. 7-34).

Medium

  • 36 p. : ill., music ; 18 x 26 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT356 .C6 1780a
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ANON-121, Reel 219 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1984]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 51053117

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Compleat instructions for the fife containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs & c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. [London: Printed for T. Skillern, 1780] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/51053117/>.