Saturday, February 17, 2024

The Sousa Band's Sousaphone Men

This page is under construction, but here's what I've got so far:

Initial post on Sousa and Sousaphones (1896-1931)

And here are the 37 men known to have played Sousaphone in Sousa's Band, with their years playing that instrument in parentheses, which puts them in rough chronological order. I'll eventually be creating posts for each one of these guys:

  1. Herman Conrad (1896-1903)
  2. John "Jack" Richardson (1903-1910, 1912-1918, 1923-1931)
  3. Arthur "Shorty" Griswold (1911)
  4. John Kuhn (1915, 1916-1918?, 1919-1920)
  5. Oscar Cott (1915-1917)
  6. W. V. Webster (1919)
  7. Henry "Hank" Stern (1919-1920)
  8. Walter Goble (1920)
  9. Edward Burant (1921-1922?)
  10. Daniel Markert (1921-1922)
  11. Nicola Ferrara (1921-1922)
  12. Fred Pfaff (1921-1922, 1929-1930 radio broadcasts?)
  13. Earl Field (1921-1924)
  14. Donald Gardner (1921-1922, 1925-1926)
  15. William "Bill" Bell (1921-1924)
  16. William Gens (1922-1924?)
  17. Arthur Raymond (1923-1924)
  18. Fred Grabner (1923)
  19. Arthur Davenport (1923, 1925-1926
  20. James Romeril (1923-1924)
  21. Clayton "Gabe" Russ (1923-1927)
  22. Martin O'Conner (1924)
  23. William Herb (1924-1926, 1929-1931)
  24. Herbert Weber (1924, 1926)
  25. Earl Keller (1925-1926)
  26. Nathan Lower (1925-1926, 1928, 1930?)
  27. Paul Kniss (1925-1926)
  28. Loren Kent (1926-1927)
  29. Albert Weber (1926)
  30. Elvin "Jake" Freeman (1927-1928)
  31. Frank Tritton (1927)
  32. Edwin Bearman (1928)
  33. Reuben "Johnny" Evans (1928-1929)
  34. Arbor "Bob" Fuller (1928-1929, 1930?)
  35. R. B. Merville (1930)
  36. Oscar Zimmerman (1930)
  37. George Woolley (1930-1931)


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