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(Continued from page 1.) and the large part music played in the community life at the turn of the century. He stated that he attended “singing school” at the home of his uncle “in the lower part of the county.”
“I sang tenor,” states Mr. Estes. “Someone Just pitched it and we sang by note. We knew, about tuning forks but we ^didn’t use one. Once we weftt to Page to a singing match of old men, and they used a tuning fork.”
Continuing his narrative of the Sperryville Hand, Mr. Estes named the members: Ben Menefee, oldes member, played ,lead clarinet; Mosby Johnson played a cornet until he left for California and didn’t return to Rappahannock, after that Herbert Bruce took his place; Will Cooper played first alto, and he, too, left the county as a young man and went west.
(‘‘My father and I went to Missouri when I was very young,” put in Mr. Estes while speaking of these Rappahannock men who followed Horace *Greeley’s advice to ‘go West, young man,’ “but my father had chills and fever so bad we had to return.”)
Other members of the band were: Bab Bruce, second al^o; . Haywood Wood, first cornet; Lloyd Menefee, tenor; Milton Brown, alto; J. R. Cooper, bass horn; Jett Menefee, kettle drum; and Oscar Dodson, bass drum.
“I played the baritone,” said Mr. Estes. “I’ve still got the horn but I can’t play it now with this extra set of teeth.”
“That was a fine band and we played all kinds of fine music. We played at the Culpeper Fair one year.”
Much change in the appearance of Sperryville falls in Mr. Estes’ memory, but he insists that the Lee Highway hotel still looks the same that it did when he was just a little chap. “Some claim it was built by Hopkins, and Mil
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