Marching band
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A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who play while marching. Historically, they have been used in armed forces and many marching bands remain military bands. Others are still associat
Goin' Band from Raiderland, the college marching band of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas
The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block"
The Brentwood Imperial Youth Band
Southern University Human Jukebox (2019)
Ottoman military band
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Ottoman military bands were the first-recorded military marching bands. Though often known as the mehter, this term refers only to a single musician in the band. In the Ottoman Empire, the band was ge
Marching band
…union events and marching band competitions. Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition. 17th-century…
Mehterhâne, photo from 1917
Modern mehter troop
Ottoman mehterân
Mehterhâne, miniature from 1720