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Their own image is not unfairly represented by the tone of their weekly magazine: 'Apart from the sheer joy of playing together, and sometimes giving valued service to the community, bandsmen receive and expect no reward, either of fame or money. ' The brass bandsman in Huddersfield is an idealist. To talk about the movement with him is to embark on a moral dialogue, and again and again the phrase that comes into his conversation is 'to make better music, to make music better'. In bandroom after bandroom the same warm Puritan spirit peeps through: 'Well, what always inspired me is that you have twenty-four men sweating and straining away, and for nothing.

Those too had their idealist beginnings. The clubs, like the bands, were associated with the temperance movement, and teetotallers still occupy positions of power in them. But beer has proved best. It has created a social group, 36 Brass Bands capable of considerable diversification, whereas the bands' very limited centre is the skill of contestmen and linkmen. Their relationship with local life can be misunderstood. Brass bands play for charity in the parks, play on church processions, play before the Rugby League match, or on Whit walks and old folks' outings.

It's common to see a small girl sitting by her father, who called in from his Sunday morning walk. 45 At the Club Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are quiet ones. Pay day is a long way behind. And Wednesday, end of the financial week, is called 'common sense night'. Thursday night is much busier as some trades get paid then, and Friday and Monday lead in and out of the very busy weekends. ' At Turnbridge Working Men's Club on a Wednesday evening, there were two or three youths playing billiards, fifteen to twenty men and then as the evening wore on a dozen or so wives and mothers came in.

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