Editing Waikato Rifle Volunteers Band

The band of the ''Waikato Rifle Volunteers'' was likely the first band to perform in Hamilton. Their first appearance on parade, under Bandmaster Shannaghan, was on 3 August 1872, where they played 'Yankee Doodle' and 'Finnigan's Wake'. The band played in "good time and key, for which they were heartily applauded by a number of residents who came to hear them". It had only been seven weeks wince the bandmaster stared giving them instruction, "who had never seen a fife or drum before".

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