The drummer's instructor : or martial musician, containing the rudiments of drum-beating, on a new and improved system, the rules for common, quick, and compound time, with beats in each mode, and the whole of the camp duties, consisting of the reveille, troop retreat, tattoo, parley, officers' calls, signals, salutes, &c., as practiced at head-quarters of the Army and Navy, U.S. A. : together with instructions for the bass-drum

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by J. L. Rumrille, H. Holton