Chords for Civil War Music Instruments

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[Fm] Hi, I'm Jeff Stockham.
[Bbm] This is Making Music magazine.
Today [C] I'm going to be talking a
little bit about Civil [Bb] War brass bands and musical instruments.
[Fm] In the 1850s and [Gm] 60s,
just about every small [Ebm] town, village, [Gb] crossroads, and city had its own [Ab] brass band.
[Ab] So [Ebm] when the
Civil War broke out, [Bb] many of those [Bbm] bands enlisted [Bb] right along with their local regiment to go
serve in the Army, either Northern or Southern.
[Ebm] And the group [E] that I play [Bbm] with, actually the
various [Ab] groups I play with, represent [Ebm] that [Db] sort of brass band.
Now I'm going to show [C] you some of
these instruments.
[Gb] These are actual Civil [Fm] War era instruments.
[Ebm] This is an [F] E-flat cornet, bell front,
side action rotary valves.
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ [N] _ _ This is a similar instrument.
It's a B-flat cornet, pitched a
little bit lower.
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This instrument is an alto horn, _ also with rotary valves, and it's pitched a little
lower yet it fills in some of the middle voices.
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_ [F] And I've also brought a couple [Bb] of curious instruments
which are [Ebm] typical for Civil War [Gb] brass bands.
These are [Ab] over-the-shoulder [Bbm] cornets, [Ab] also known as
sax [Bbm] horns.
[F] The reason that the bell pointed over the shoulder was [G] that the band marched in front
[Bb] of the regiment and these instruments threw the sound [Ebm] back towards the regiment so [F] that they could
hear their favorite tunes while they were on the march.
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[N] _ And they were made in approximately five
sizes from the smallest, the E-flat over-the-shoulder cornet, all the way _ down to the E-flat over-the-
tuba. _
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[Ab] _ _ _ [N] Along with the brass band instruments, I've brought along some instruments used by what was
called the field music.
And the field music was the fife and drum and bugle corps, and they provided
all of the camp calls and the duty calls and the combat calls for the soldiers so that the soldiers
could know what duty they were supposed to do or what maneuver they were supposed to play.
For
[Bb] instance, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Reveille, time to get up in the morning.
The fife, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the drum,
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