Here is a painting, titled The Militia Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch (also known as The Night Watch), which has a drummer in it (the very right of the picture). It was painted by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1642. It shows what a Dutch militia company would have looked like being called to arms by the drummer during that time, and the drummer and his drum are very similarity to what we do in fife and drum today. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 there was a Dutch influence on Britain, and it is likely that it influenced fife and drum as well.
For more information on the painting, and for several other Dutch militia paintings see: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-5?lang=en&context_space=aria_catalogs&context_id=Term_00027329_en
-Peter B.
Memor!
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