This section comprises entries on established music ensembles, including orchestras, pit bands and jazz bands that provided accompaniment to various forms of variety theatre production – notably vaudeville, burlesques, revues, revusicals.

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C

• Charleston Super Six Syncopators

F

• Flaming Youths
• Flying Squadron Orchestra (Rockhampton)

N

• National Orchestra (Sydney)
  

R

• Royal Squadron Syncopators

T

• Tiny Douglas and His Varsity Boys

V

• Vasco’s Varsity Boys

W

• Will Quintrell & His Tivolians

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Images L-R: Royal Squadron Syncopators (1925); Fullers’ National Orchestra, Syd (ca. 1910s); His Master’s Voice advertsiement (ca. 1920s); Charleston Super Six Symphonists with Nat Phillips Whirligigs (ca. 1928)