Ohio State Marching Band
The Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) is a university marching band named for and a part of Ohio State University. The band, nicknamed The Best Damn Band in the Land (TBDBITL) (pronounced ), performs at football games and other events during the fall semester. It is one of the few collegiate all-brass and percussion bands in the country, and sometimes deemed the largest of its type in the world. History The band was initially founded in 1878 as a student-led fife and drum corps that provided music for the university Reserve Officers' Training Corps, ROTC program. In 1896, university officials hired Gustav Bruder as the first band director. Under Bruder's leadership, the band grew in size, and, after merging with the short-lived Varsity Band in 1920, introduced its first "modern" drum major, Edwin "Tubby" Essington. Essington introduced a style of showmanship to the position that had not been seen previously, a style which is emulated today. In 1928, the band introduce ...
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