Personnel varied; as with most such New Orleans brass bands of the era, a group no larger than three trumpets or cornets, two trombones, one or two clarinets, alto horn, baritone horn, bass horn, snare drum, and bass drum considered sufficient for most jobs.
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1976 : Forsythe moved to a dedicated facility in Watertown, Massachusetts and added the SR115 single 15 inch bass horn to the line along with the addition of distribution through dealers outside the New England area including Quantum Audio in NYC and Sound Genesis in San Francisco.
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The visual appeal of band members in uniform playing instruments with zoomorphic heads ( in addition to the buccin, serpents, bass horns, bassoons and Russian bassoons a form of upright serpent all were made with decorative bells ) was indisputable and manufacturers were quick to supply more and more exotic designs.
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This guy down there had a big bell that he's ring to get us all to come in to dinner, an'I'd call over [ and ] say,'What's goin'on ?'Colored guy said,'We got twen'y-one drums, we got an old bass horn, an'they even keepin'time on a ding-dong .'See, that was the big bell they'd ring to git us t'come in.
