bandsmen

Extra Billy Smith had his "tooting fellows," as he called his bandsmen, play "Yankee Doodle" as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Extra Billy Smith had his "tooting fellows," as he called his bandsmen, play "Yankee Doodle" as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Extra Billy Smith had his “tooting fellows,” as he called his bandsmen, play “Yankee Doodle” as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Extra Billy Smith had his “tooting fellows,” as he called his bandsmen, play “Yankee Doodle” as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

Extra Billy Smith had his “tooting fellows,” as he called his bandsmen, play “Yankee Doodle” as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

I gathered that the 'bandsmen' were not orchestra players but groups of hijackers, burglars or highwaymen, terrorizing unpatrolled regions, resorting to senseless outrages of destruction in property and human life.

Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

Mr. Giordano's bandsmen play with remarkable precision.

Vince Giordano and the Underground Nighthawk Boogie Will Friedwald 2011

And as virtuosic as they are elegant, many of the bandsmen play multiple instruments, even lending their singing voices in various combinations to songs that require it.

The Wunderbar Max Raabe Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

The fate of the regiment's boy trumpeters – to be left behind when their regiment sailed to war – came directly from the first-person accounts, as did the information that bandsmen might be assigned to be stretcher bearers.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

I used the Foundry figures to create my version of the von Kleist freikorps, because Foundry has all of the necessary elements, including the rarely-made uhlans and uhlan bandsmen in their Turkish style uniforms.

Von Kleist Frei-husaren Der Alte Fritz 2008