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-The Calithumpian band was an informal student musical group that was popular during 1869-1870, utilizing an unusual assortment of instruments meant to be noisy.+The Calithumpian band was an informal student musical group that was popular during 1869-1870, utilizing an unusual assortment of noisy instruments. Other "[[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/callithump|calithumpian bands]]" existed during the 19th century; the term "callithump" refers to boisterous and noisy parades.
  
-The 1870 //[[tablet|Tablet]]// reported that Trinity College’s Calithumpian Band, a campus musical group, came together as the result of certain students’ desire to make musical noise, wryly stating that “Lack of musical abilities, then, and an internal desire for something musical are the prime causes of Calithumpianism.” +The 1870 //[[tablet|Trinity Tablet]]// reported that Trinity College’s Calithumpian Band, a campus musical group, came together as the result of certain students’ desire to make musical noise, wryly stating that “Lack of musical abilities, then, and an internal desire for something musical are the prime causes of Calithumpianism.” 
  
 Primitive and humorous in nature, the group consisted of “a goodly number of zealous members” playing a variety of instruments listed in the //Tablet// as "a drum, a flageolet, two cornets, two flutes, a dinner bell, a whistle of great power, a watchman's rattle, a triangle, two pairs of tin cymbals, a holtz-instrument, and a horse-fiddle." The "holtz instrument" was a made-up "instrument" comprised of a tin kettle, pot, pan, dish, and can arranged on a board in order of size, not unlike a xylophone. The "horse-fiddle" was a box with a thin board and strings attached across the opening, with a makeshift bow of wood.  Primitive and humorous in nature, the group consisted of “a goodly number of zealous members” playing a variety of instruments listed in the //Tablet// as "a drum, a flageolet, two cornets, two flutes, a dinner bell, a whistle of great power, a watchman's rattle, a triangle, two pairs of tin cymbals, a holtz-instrument, and a horse-fiddle." The "holtz instrument" was a made-up "instrument" comprised of a tin kettle, pot, pan, dish, and can arranged on a board in order of size, not unlike a xylophone. The "horse-fiddle" was a box with a thin board and strings attached across the opening, with a makeshift bow of wood. 
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-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=tablets|Trinity Tablet]], 12/31/1873.+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31709727|Trinity Tablet]], December 1873.
  
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=tablets|Trinity Tablet]], 02/15/1870.+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31659993|Trinity Tablet]], 02/15/1870.
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