[78-L] The British Army Quadrilles

[David London]

Yes I figured they were quite old.  The style of the label is very old.
 It's basically this label

http://www.tedstaunton.com/labels/1910-1919.pages/Columbia.Rena.Record/image/columbia.rena.record.gif

but without the -Rena suffix and the company name around the bottom is
Columbia Graphophone.





On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Matthew Duncan <recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi
> If these are British pressings numbered 366 and 367 then they are WWI or
earlier and acoustic recordings...someone else will be able to tell you more
accurately I am sure.
>
> British guards band records (even from this early period) turn up often
even today as they remained in company's catalogues for a long time.
>
> Sound like very interesting discs...
>
> Regards
> Matthew
> UK
>
>
>
>
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> I am ferreting through some old 12" 78s and just enjoyed a 2 record set on
> Columbia Records of "The British Army Quadrilles" by the Massed Bands of
the
> Guards.  The label and style of the records makes me think it is quite
old,
> but Google has failed to turn up anything for me.  As I said, it's two 12"
> 78 records  and they are numbered 366 and 367.
>
> I did Google the concept of a quadrille, and that was interesting. It was
> first a performance on horseback, then a dance - a precursor to square
> dancing.  These two records have all 6 parts of the dance on them.
>
> Apologies if queries like this get a bit tedious on this list, but I would
> be interested in finding when these were made etc.
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