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University of Oklahoma Band
Norman
The reviewed sources document University of Oklahoma Band in Norman. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
Evidence update · September 11, 2026
Explore 102 reviewed resident-band records: 61 supplemental research profiles and evidence additions to 41 existing profiles.
The core directory retains its 217 profiles. These supplemental records preserve uncertain identities and possible namesakes while reconciliation with the earlier 292-record inventory continues. They are not a claim of 61 newly discovered, unique bands. A retired duplicate is excluded. Dates describe evidence, and announcements do not prove that performances happened.
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Norman
The reviewed sources document University of Oklahoma Band in Norman. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Chilocco / Newkirk
The reviewed sources document Chilocco Indian Agricultural School Bands in Chilocco / Newkirk. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Near Ponca City
The reviewed sources document 101 Ranch Band in Near Ponca City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Fort Sill
The reviewed sources document 5th Field Artillery Band in Fort Sill. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Waukomis
The reviewed sources document Waukomis Band in Waukomis. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Caddo
The reviewed sources document Caddo Woodmen's Band in Caddo. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Ripley
The reviewed sources document Ripley Band in Ripley. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Alva
The 1937, 1938 and 1940 Ranger yearbooks document the college's concert, marching and symphonic work, with woodwind, brass and percussion instruction. William F. Deusinger directed the program in 1936–1940. The 1937 Little Ranger high-school band is a separate ensemble.
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Edmond
The reviewed sources document University of Central Oklahoma Bands in Edmond. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Weatherford
The reviewed sources document Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bands in Weatherford. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Hobart
The reviewed sources document Hobart Band in Hobart. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Anadarko
The reviewed sources document Anadarko Ladies Band in Anadarko. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Anadarko
The reviewed sources document Unnamed Anadarko youth band (Veidt–Grimstead; provisional) in Anadarko. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Amorita
The reviewed sources document Amorita Band in Amorita. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Yukon
The reviewed sources document Yukon Band in Yukon. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Mill Creek
The reviewed sources document Mill Creek Band in Mill Creek. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Anadarko
The reviewed sources document Anadarko Band in Anadarko. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Carrier
The reviewed sources document Northwestern Academy Band in Carrier. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Enid
The reviewed sources document Phillips University Band in Enid. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Fort Sill / Lawton
The reviewed sources document Fort Sill Indian School Band in Fort Sill / Lawton. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Guthrie
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma Cavalry Band in Guthrie. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Chickasha
The reviewed sources document Chickasha Band in Chickasha. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Shawnee
The reviewed sources document Shawnee Band in Shawnee. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Stillwater
The reviewed sources document Stillwater Band in Stillwater. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma City cowboy band (1902) in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Vinita
The reviewed sources document Vinita Band in Vinita. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Fort Towson
The reviewed sources document Fort Towson Booster Band in Fort Towson. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Kiltie Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Ardmore
The reviewed sources document Pride of Ardmore Band in Ardmore. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Weatherford
The reviewed sources document Weatherford Band (provisional) in Weatherford. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Muskogee
The reviewed sources document Muskogee Merchants' Band in Muskogee. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Muskogee
The reviewed sources document Muskogee Colored Military Band in Muskogee. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Mangum
The reviewed sources document Mangum Band in Mangum. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Shawnee; announced performance at Asher
The reviewed sources document Shawnee Big Union Band in Shawnee; announced performance at Asher. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tulsa
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation Employees Band in Tulsa. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tulsa
The reviewed sources document Skelly Oil Company Band in Tulsa. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Vinita
The reviewed sources document Sequoyah Band in Vinita. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document India Temple Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Mulhall
The reviewed sources document Mulhall Band in Mulhall. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tahlequah
Northeastern: Centennial History, pages 299 and 373, traces organization under student Stewart R. Lamb in 1927 and leadership by Henri Minsky and R. E. McCormick. It reports about 20 musicians in 1930, 60 by 1933, spring tours from 1932, a 1937 summer camp, and a performance at the Hastings Indian Hospital dedication on October 3, 1938. The underlying contemporary newspaper and yearbook pages remain to be recovered.
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Shawnee
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma Baptist University Band in Shawnee. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Stillwater
Official Oklahoma State University history and scholarly sources place Bohumil Makovsky's band and music leadership at Oklahoma A&M in 1915–1943. The supported start is 1915; an earlier 1917 attribution is not retained as the start of his tenure. OSU also dates his state band clinic to 1933. Exact administrative-title wording and the meaning of the separate 1917 milestone remain unresolved.
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Hennessey
The reviewed sources document Griffin Rock Island Band in Hennessey. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Ponca City
The reviewed sources document Ponca City Band (1902, provisional) in Ponca City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Miami
The reviewed sources document Miami Brass Band (1902, provisional) in Miami. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Stillwater
The reviewed sources document Stillwater Colored Band in Stillwater. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Muskogee
The 1925 Chieftain identifies the C.H.S. State Champion Band, director Anton Goetz, president Francis Dowd, vice-president David McKenzie and secretary Jack Murphy. The roster covers alto, bass, baritone, clarinet, horn, cornet, drum, saxophone and trombone sections. The championship contest and date are not established by this caption. The separately filmed Muskogee Symphony Band is not assumed to be this school band.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Douglass High School Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Sapulpa
The reviewed sources document Sapulpa High School Band in Sapulpa. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Dewey
The reviewed sources document Dewey High School Band in Dewey. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Chandler
The reviewed sources document Chandler Band in Chandler. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Mangum
The reviewed sources document Mangum K. of P. Band in Mangum. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Cleveland
The reviewed sources document Cleveland Band in Cleveland. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tulsa
The reviewed sources document Tulsa High School Band in Tulsa. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Garber
The reviewed sources document Garber School Band in Garber. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Capitol Hill Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Capitol Hill Little German Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Seminole
The reviewed sources document Seminole High School Band in Seminole. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma City University Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tulsa
The reviewed sources document University of Tulsa Band in Tulsa. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Langston
The reviewed sources document Colored Agricultural and Normal University Band in Langston. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Guthrie (documented parade; home station unresolved)
The reviewed sources document Oklahoma National Guard First Infantry Band in Guthrie (documented parade; home station unresolved). The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Perry
The reviewed sources document Band of Perry (1937, provisional) in Perry. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document 145th Army Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Atoka
The reviewed sources document Atoka Baptist Orphanage School Band in Atoka. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Guthrie
The reviewed sources document Guthrie Scout Band in Guthrie. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Alva
The 1937 Ranger yearbook, digitized leaf n160, documents a 42-member Little Ranger Band and its premiere at Herod Hall on March 25, 1937. William F. Deusinger supervised the band; college bandsmen LeRoy Austin, J. L. Reed and Edward Leighton instructed it. Officers were Jimmie Kingston, Dorothy Soripsick, Estell Smith and Velma Keck. No uninterrupted later history is established.
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Tishomingo
The reviewed sources document First Band of Tishomingo in Tishomingo. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tishomingo
The reviewed sources document Tishomingo Woodmen of the World Band in Tishomingo. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Broken Arrow
The 1938 Arrow Life yearbook names V. M. North as director for the preceding six years and describes football-game music, marching drills, trips, civic programs and band festivals. Its instrumentation includes woodwinds, brass and percussion. The approximately 1932 date concerns North's tenure; it does not replace the program's separate reported 1929 origin.
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Claremore
Claremore's R. S. Saunders directed a 21-player military-style civic band in 1903, with four clarinets, six cornets, three E-flat altos, three trombones, baritone, two E-flat basses and two drummers. Dated newspaper transcriptions describe concerts, Memorial Day and picnic music, and a dissolution in April 1904. Saunders' orchestra was a separate mixed ensemble; continuity with later municipal bands is not established.
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Grandfield
The reviewed sources document Grandfield High School Band in Grandfield. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Luther
The reviewed sources document Luther High School Band in Luther. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Oklahoma City
The OHS photograph catalog uses the name American Federation of Music Brass Band and places the group at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, circa 1918–1922. It names Dad Ziegler, Rip Zimmerman, James H. McIlvain and Bom Butler. Affiliation with AFM Local 375 is not established by that catalog record and is now qualified rather than asserted.
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Oklahoma City
The reviewed sources document Epworth College Band in Oklahoma City. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Guymon
The reviewed sources document Guymon Cowboy Band in Guymon. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Alva
The July 16, 1898 Oklahoma State Capital announced the Alva cornet band for July 18 cornerstone ceremonies. Its July 19 report says the Alva Coronet band played patriotic airs as visitors arrived at the railroad depot. This adds a completed 1898 performance to the existing 1894 evidence without assuming uninterrupted continuity.
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Alva
A December 10, 1903 report says Alva's Troop A band would be made the Oklahoma regimental band; prospective wording does not prove the designation was completed. A June 15, 1905 report describes a completed public-square concert by the First Regiment Band under Miss H. Phil Smith the previous Thursday, inferred as June 8. Administrative succession from Guthrie and any campus relationship remain unresolved.
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Atoka
The reviewed sources document Atoka School Band in Atoka. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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El Reno
The 1938 Boomer yearbook documents a 43-student band led by Tom Shirley with Earnest Potts as drum major. It describes games, parades, halftime marching, a January 16 concert and an October 23 Weatherford marching-contest prize. The years 1938 and 1937 for those dates are inferred from school-year context. This does not identify the separate 1938 cowboy-band photograph ERL.506.
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El Reno
The 1938 Boomer documents a separate 37-student girls' drum and bugle corps organized and directed by Tom Shirley. Sara Ann Preston was drum major and Eunice Cormack assistant sponsor. The corps provided music and marching exhibitions and attended festivals and contests. It remains distinct from the school's concert/marching band.
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Boley
Contemporary newspapers document a Boley concert on March 4, 1909; music at an August 1909 Odd Fellows banquet; a July 12, 1910 station reception and march to Cavil's Park; a June 5, 1913 excursion through Clearview to Vernon; Boley's July 4, 1922 celebration; and the 1922 county high fair. The July 1922 celebration was reported to draw roughly 3,000–4,000 people. Exact banquet and fair dates remain unresolved. These dated reports do not establish uninterrupted operation or a merger with the Union Excelsior Band.
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Boley
The July 30, 1915 Boley Progress reports that Dr. C. P. Smith organized youths aged 12–18 as the Boley Union Excelsior Band. Contributions for instruments were requested and future free open-air concerts were promised after the players became proficient. No completed performance is established.
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Durant
The reviewed sources document Southeastern State Teachers College Band in Durant. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Quinton
The reviewed sources document Quinton School Band in Quinton. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Tatums
The January 5, 1922 Black Dispatch reports a Tatums Band concert at Franklin School and music for a Masonic parade and at night. The concert wording conflicts between Friday and Saturday, so December 30–31, 1921 remains a range. The parade date is inferred as January 3, 1922. School-aged membership does not establish formal school sponsorship, and continuity with D. M. Jackson's later 1936–1940 music program remains unresolved.
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Lawton
The reviewed sources document Lawton High School Band in Lawton. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Vernon
January 1920 reporting identifies a Vernon brass band preparing for spring. A July notice announces an engagement on July 29–30. These items establish the named local band but do not establish that the announced July performance took place.
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Bookertee
The Black Dispatch identifies J. A. Anderson as bandmaster in 1922. College commencement and an Okmulgee engagement were announced in May and July; completion is unproved. An October report records a completed program at Vernon's A.M.E. church on the previous Saturday, inferred as October 21, 1922.
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Mustang area; later Yukon/Czech Hall association
The reviewed sources document Masopust Polka Band in Mustang area; later Yukon/Czech Hall association. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Yukon / Czech Hall area
The reviewed sources document George Miskovsky Band in Yukon / Czech Hall area. The dates below describe the evidence available; they do not establish the band's complete lifespan.
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Grove
The 1936 Ridgerunner, page 28, records a 25-member Senior Band under Fred Gesin and music for school and community functions, the Chamber of Commerce, a Skelly Oil banquet, a teachers' meeting at Jay and basketball games. The 1939 page adds later directors and Chamber tours. The 1936 account says the band was organized that school year; the 1939 retrospective says 1934. Both dates remain qualified.
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Grove
The 1936 Ridgerunner, page 29, separately captions a 13-student Junior Band under Fred Gesin. The photograph and roster establish woodwind, brass and percussion participation. Its exact grade level, later continuity and formal feeder relationship to the Senior Band remain unresolved.
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Wagoner
Wagoner newspapers document a merchant-supported band under L. F. Katzmyer, also printed Katzmeyer, with a 15-member wind, brass and percussion roster. A December 18, 1917 concert, its program and audience are reported after the event. Further 1918 reporting covers concerts, park and Auto Show music, subscriptions for the instructor and a roughly $94–$95 bandstand in Majestic Park. Relative-day dates and later continuity remain qualified.
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Tulsa
A Sapulpa Historical Museum account quotes contemporary March 1918 Herald reporting that announced the Tulsa Salvation Army band for the March 9–10 dedication weekend. The retrospective describes bands playing and marching but does not independently establish a particular completed performance by the Tulsa band. Continuity with the Tulsa band photographed in 1942 is not established.
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Stillwater
The 1939 Stillwater Pioneer yearbook OCR describes a 91-member band under Glen M. Varnum, with woodwind, brass and percussion sections, 27 first-semester uniformed appearances, a KTUL broadcast and contest activity. The exact printed page and several individual event dates still require recovery.
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Pawhuska
The 1939 Pawhuska Wa Sha She yearbook OCR documents band officers, uniforms, football marching, formal auditorium concerts and a Band Parents Club. George Kernek appears among instrumental-music faculty, but the band-director attribution and exact roster require page-image verification.
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Muskogee
Yale's Solomon Sir Jones film finding aid transcribes a Muskogee Symphony Band slate for November 26, 1925, in Film 5 at 00:06:52–00:07:18. The name, place and filmed presence are documented. School or civic affiliation, personnel, instruments and active performance await frame-level review. No identity with Central High School or Manual Training High School is inferred.
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Minco
A dated 1939 Minco band photograph and its identifications name director Milton Shedick and a substantial roster, with percussion, clarinet, saxophone, cornet, tuba and baritone evidence. Exact institutional sponsorship and the original photograph or newspaper provenance remain open.
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Byars
A local newspaper retrospective reproduces two photographs captioned as the Byars Brass Band in 1910 and describes a lakeside-pavilion performance. This may relate to the existing Byars Concert Band record, but identity equivalence and original-item provenance are not yet established. It is retained as a related evidence note, not counted as an additional ensemble.
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Fort Gibson
Northeastern: Centennial History, page 13, records a twenty-piece military band from Fort Gibson performing at the Cherokee Male Seminary dedication near Tahlequah on May 6, 1851. The institutional account cites an 1880 Cherokee Advocate item. The original item, exact military unit, leader, roster and instrumentation remain unresolved.
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Tulsa
OHS and OKPOP identify the Royal Entertainers as Ernie Fields's early Tulsa ensemble after his 1924 Tuskegee graduation. The Oklahoma Eagle names David Duncan as a member and arranger in early 1928 and Harold Eiler as a tenor saxophonist. Later book and interview sources describe regional touring and performances at Cain's Ballroom and the Tulsa Club. These are retrospective accounts; exact engagement dates, the complete roster and the transition to the later Ernie Fields Orchestra remain unresolved. Taft is Fields's upbringing, not an established home base of this band.
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