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The United States authorizes all military bands "band regalia" consisting of a unique unit drum major mace, baldric, tabard, and drum design. The United States Army Institute of Heraldry designs these items on behalf of military bands. [10] In full parade dress, drum majors of many U.S. military bands wear bearskin hats.
A Tambour-Major of the French Imperial Guard (historical reenactment). The position of drum major originated in the British Army with the Corps of Drums in 1650. [citation needed] Military groups performed mostly duty calls and battle signals during that period, and a fife and drum corps, directed by the drum major, would use short pieces to communicate to field units.
The ranks of commissary sergeant, drum major and leader of the band and hospital steward were added to the infantry. The ranks of commissary sergeant, hospital steward and battery quartermaster sergeant were added to the artillery. Regimental hospital stewards wore the same insignia as those in the Medical Department.
The duty of drum major within the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela is only present in the corps of drums of military formations and not in military bands. The drum major wears depending on occasion full dress, service dress or combat dress uniforms, with active units usually having their corps of drums' drum majors wearing the latter.
Drum Majors, the field commanders and band directors, usually do not wear the regular band uniform, to better distinguish them from the rest of the band. Some wear more formal outfits or costumes that match the theme of the music, or most commonly a differently designed version of the regular band uniform, often employing different colors ...
A drum major of the United States' III Marine Expeditionary Forces Band is pictured wearing a baldric in 2019 The Marching Illini Drumline with double baldrics. The University of Illinois Marching Illini wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder. They crossed in the front and back and were buttoned ...
Formed in 1926, the Central High School Kiltie Drum & Bugle Corps is using uniforms older than the students wearing them. Central's nearly 100-year-old Kiltie Drum & Bugle Corps trying to raise ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Bud Walsh presents a pipe banner to then-Pipe Major Alan Clark on 20 October 2007. Being a Highland regiment, the dress uniform of the pipes and drums is based on traditional Scottish military dress. It marches in Scottish kilts and wear a tartan unique to the Cameron Highlanders of the Canadian and British forces.