Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Unidentified!


Scan12138, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Whoever designed this band chariot must have anticipated fording some rivers.

Posted by Buckles at 9/23/2009 05:37:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a local community bandwagon, or bandchariot if you want to be persnickety. There are photos of quite a few such vehicles, some of which survive today. A few almost looked like something that a circus might own. The over the shoulder brass instruments suggest a date of perhaps the 1870s-1880s. The idea of the horns over the shoulders was so that the band marched in front of the soldiers, who could then hear the music projected backwards.

23 September, 2009 14:53

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