What is the difference between a marching band and a fife and drum corps?
Both groups are marching musical units, and there the resemblance ends. Ancient fife and drum corps limit their instrumentation to fife, snare drum, and bass drum, in contrast to the variety of woodwinds, brass and percussion found in a marching band. The music they play is also different. Ancient fife and drum corps play military and folk music from the 18th and 19th centuries, and very little from the 20th century. Most of the marching band repertoire comes from the 20th century.
