[PW] Re: Fire drill tune?

[Bill Davis]

Schools in America are run locally, under the supervision of 50 separate 
state governments, so I very much doubt there was a uniform tune being 
played for fire drills throughout the country.

That being said, you might take a look at "Fire Drill," a march by Harry J. 
Lincoln (1909).

Bill Davis




At 09:45 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:

>I have heard that at one stage, all American schools had fire drills
>once a week, and always used the same tune, played on the school
>piano, to the strains of which the pupils would march out. The 1920s,
>I think, or perhaps earlier. Is this true, and if so, what was the
>tune?
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