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Mill bands were the brass bands of the day and were later replaced by high school bands
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Waldrop talks about how brass bands came to play for square dances. Bands usually consisted of a fiddler, saxophone, trumpet, and trombones.
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People who worked in the textile mills played in bands that would perform at events and competitions