Marching fork

Marching fork made of brass for a trumpet

A marching fork is a holding device for one or more sheet music .

Lyres are usually of brass bands and marching bands in mobile applications - such. B. Marching - used to fix one or more sheet music on the instrument. It is attached either through a special eyelet on the instrument (“box”) or by means of a clamp at the lower end of the marching fork, which is clamped to the instrument. For flutists or horn players there is the possibility of a strap, usually made of leather , to be buckled around the left forearm, in the loop of which the marching fork is inserted.

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  Marching fork on the saxophone

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  Marching fork and flute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is a marching fork? In: blasinstrumente-info.de . Retrieved June 6, 2018.