The Old Barracks Fife and Drum Corps, Trenton, New Jersey (photo courtesy of the Old Barracks Association)
The Old Barracks Fife and Drum Corps released, in 2010, a recording that includes marches found in the Caspar Schaffner manuscript, arranged and edited by Steve Hudak, for the Corps, of which he is the distinguished director. The CD, titled, “Guardian Angels” debuted the talents of the fifes and drums of the Old Barracks. But it offers more than just the familiar compilation of martial music drawn from the 17th to the early 19th centuries; it is unique in that many of the melodies recorded are extracted directly from original manuscripts of Caspar Schaffner (1767-1825) of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The first manuscript volume is in the collection of the Practitioners of Musick.