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Audio transcript for: Beginning Of High School Bands Brass Bands & Square Dances Textile Brass Bands
Harry Waldrop
Easley, SC (Greenville County) resident who played saxophone in the Easley Mill Brass Band. Interview conducted by Laurel Horton. Also present are Sue Jameson and Caroline Hendricks.
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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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Mill bands were the brass bands of the day and were later replaced by high school bands
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People who worked in the textile mills played in bands that would perform at events and competitions