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Then the bottom was removed from the big butter box, the side drum severed, and one end securely fastened under the front end of the toboggan bottom.

The two halves are kept open by a slight spring fixed to a frame attached to the hoop of a side drum, and the instrument is worked by the drummer with an ordinary drum-stick.

The side drum can be muffled by loosening the snares or by inserting a piece of silk or cloth between the snares and the parchment.

With Drummer Price, an expert of many years' service with the side drum, and L/Cpl.

The old cylindrical ear-piercing fife is an obsolete instrument, being superseded by a small army flute, still, however, called a fife, used with the side drum in the drum and fife band.