Thanks very much Brian. Yes, we've been very lucky with the weather for the past few days, although it's now getting a bit too hot to be comfortable. I really thought that the band sounded superb for this one.

Thanks for the appreciation and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yes - very distinctive!

Thanks very much, Mr B. It was very pleasing that this year they had lovely weather (if a bit hot) and a very good-sized audience. Last year they played in the same park, their first time there, at short notice, but the weather was absolutely abysmal with a torrential downpour through much of the first half. Inventiveness on the part of the band and the voluntary organisation that cares for the park won through, with a super-size gazebo for the band got at short notice and just a dozen or so very hardy souls in the audience at the beginning.

Hello Brian, and thanks very much for a lovely comment! So absolutely true.

Hello SecretSpiski - we can always rely on you for something nice to say!

Hi Charlotte, and thanks for the comment. Unfortunately it was rather too crowded to see whether any of your favourite spectators were around!

@@MikeM14-40it’s okay. Probably going to be like that for awhile

Hello again JWF7000, as you and I both know, playing a brass instrument to a good standard or to the best of our potential involves a lot of commitment over a long period of time. Bands such as this particular band, being a non-contesting community band, won't necessarily have the full range of instruments and parts covered at any time, so yes it is not the full size that one might expect of a contesting band. They also play an important role in supporting the community and supporting charities, and can provide an environment in which new players, of all ages, can learn to play a brass instrument and become a good and loyal bandsman. In the UK, getting new players involved in brass bands is increasingly difficult, and some bands provide training on a formal or informal basis - getting, particularly youngsters, interested in having a creative pastime such as playing a musical instrument and a sense of teamwork and community rather than just being glued to their mobile phone all day.

Thanks very much David - I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks for the comment. Yes, he generally looks very smart and is there quite often.

Maybe he is ex Military?

@mipamat5804, he’s my favorite. I love seeing him cut the backwards step

Thanks very much Toni - I try to put as much information as I can on the music in my videos, even though this sometimes takes a bit of time to establish.

Thanks for the comment, Michael. Yes, the Gurkhas have featured quite a lot in Windsor over the past couple of months.

Hi Brian, thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Certainly the little boy is a real enthusiast. Maybe a bandsman or Guard of the future!

Thanks AFV! It was lucky I got it - I can thank the group of children for that! I hope it will be good tomorrow (Saturday) as well!

@@MikeM14-40 Fingers crossed - Safe journey.

And a nice day to you, from the UK!

Thanks for the comment. Ale is certainly easier!

Thanks for the positive comments Clive, and never lose hope for some different or less-familiar marches!

Thanks - "Old Comrades" had certainly got very old indeed by the time they'd finished with it! Bad luck with the camera and aircraft noise today - the latter has been the case all week - maybe a downside of having good weather!

Thanks very much AFV! I was there again today (Thursday) for the Coldstream Guards band, but the crowds had returned with a vengeance!

Hi Ann, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the nice comment. We've had a bit of luck with a "run" of a few days of good weather. These band players certainly must have a lot of stamina!

Hello AlbaAlba, and thank you for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Hi Charlotte, yes SDM Chambers was also there today (19 June) and so, I think, was your favourite police officer. Hopefully my video of today will be ready to upload sometime tomorrow. I need some sleep first!

@@MikeM14-40 rest well, friend 😴

Hi Charlotte, I thought that it might be him, but I wasn't 100% sure. You've confirmed it. Unfortunately I didn't see any sign of either of your other 2 "stars". I'll just have to keep on trying!

@@MikeM14-40I saw my elderly gentleman and his companion in someone else’s video. I hope my lady friend is okay

@@charlottecunningham2141 Hi again Charlotte. I'm glad you saw your gentleman! I couldn't find any more videos of the same day on any of the other channels I look at. Could you please give me a link to the other video?

Many thanks for the comment James! I'm glad that my planning paid off, that the effort was appreciated, and that the result was enjoyable. I did watch other people's videos of an earlier rehearsal to try to estimate where to be for particular activities, for example where each of the renditions of "Arnhem" would start being played.

I’m a bit late watching this but better late than never😊It’s a great video filmed by someone who knows a thing or two about these things! I’m not sure that there can be a finer sight and sound than the massed bands, you can understand why the Drum Majors look so supremely proud when leading them, it must be a sound like no other to them. I love Paddy McGinty’s Goat, such a smashing jaunty march that allows a bit of the fabled swagger😎 Arnhem on the other hand has a more serious tone and certain sections seem to fit in with the idea that the guards are marching with determination, making their inexorable advance to their goal. Think I should stop now🤭 Thanks again Mike for this splendid video👍

@@AnnofWales21 Hi Ann, and many thanks for the generous comment! Your comment has got through, and is displaying, absolutely fine!

I'm over in Maine, USA, and I really appreciate watching these videos. In my younger days, I attended Norwich University, which our country's oldest private military college, and I played baritone horn and trombone in our Regimental Band. I really appreciate seeing the bandsmen.

@@briannicholas2757 Hello Brian, thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. I used to play euphonium, which is probably the same instrument as what is often called "baritone" or "baritone horn" in the USA. In the UK there is also an instrument we call the baritone, which is also in B-flat, but has a smaller bore than the euphonium. I think that that is often called a "tenor horn" in the USA.

Thanks. Yes, she certainly attracted a lot of positive comment during the band's several appearances in Windsor last October.

Hi AFV, and many thanks for the comment! Punchinello is certainly a brass band classic. The Coldstream Guards band certainly seem to have good connections to the brass band world as well as to the Salvation Army band world (eg the march "The Red Shield"). This was the first time I'd ever gone anywhere near Trooping the Colour, and it proved to be a very long and busy day. I got there very early - probably too early - and had made a plan for myself as to what to see and where, helped very much by other people's videos from earlier rehearsals. The low point of the day was my journey on foot back to the station to get out of London. Many of the roads were closed or had diversions even for pedestrians, because of the number of protests, demonstrations, counter-demonstrations, and football crowds all in the area at the same time. I had a surprise meeting with "Mr B" in front of Wellington Barracks at the end - he had been inside Horse Guards Parade to see and film the ceremony from the inside.

Hello Salsahbee, although it's not on my own video, "Rhythm of the Line", which I was told was composed by your grandfather, was certainly played. The "mini massed band" (Irish plus Welsh plus Scots Guards) played it as their second march on the way from Wellington Barracks to Horse Guards Parade, and this video gives a good viewing of it starting at about 3 minutes 15 seconds:- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4w_7jjsED7k.html This one shows the same thing, starting at about 12 minutes 25 seconds:- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9gm7IoNa-zI.html Another march that I believe was composed by your grandfather was "Guards Armoured Division" which is used in the ceremony itself on Horse Guards Parade, which is shown in this video starting at about 1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds:- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ExDfoIP7aRI.html I hope that helps - there may possibly be others as well.

@@MikeM14-40 thanks very much I find it amazing that 62 years after his death his music lives on🩵 💂🏼🩵

@@Salsahbee Thanks Salsahbee, I'm glad that I was able to help. The best music often lives on. Hopefully there'll be good coverage in the final rehearsal (Colonel's Review) this coming weekend, and then in the main event itself.

Hello e.chambers, and thanks for the comments and suggestion. I thought that the missing piece sounded like Hazelmere, but when I played it back-to-back against another rendition on RU-vid purporting to be Hazelmere it sounded different. I'll keep trying, and if I get sufficient confidence I'll update my Description. I had a bit of a heads-up about some of the pieces that were going to be played from watching someone else's video of an earlier rehearsal last week. I could see that Arnhem would appear twice, and I particularly wanted to record it so I had to try and guess exactly where each band would be when they started it, and be in the right place, as I'm not very adept at walking and filming at the same time.

@@MikeM14-40 Comparing versions can drive you nuts! It's done that to me more than once. I didn't pay that close attention before I came up with my "verdict"....! Hope you get the tune sorted. Glad to hear Arnhem by the mounted band; their marches are played slower, in keeping with a cavalry walk, so they sound slightly different anyway. The same applies to Mollendorf's Parade.There are so many moving parts to the King's Birthday Parade and its various rehearsals that videoing it must be a conundrum - you really have to know what you want to capture, pick your vantage points and your timing, and then hope you aren't scuppered by the unexpected. Still, always an adventure! I enjoyed the results of this one. Thanks Mike.

Hi Deborah, nice to hear from you and thanks for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Hi Charlotte, and good morning! I'm glad you enjoyed the tunes and one or two of the voices in the video. I enjoyed being there and planning for it. What wasn't so enjoyable was trying to get back afterwards to the station to get out of London. This is normally only about a 20-minutes, simple walk but this time it took much more than an hour because of all the different demonstrations, counter-demonstrations, protests, and football crowds in London all happening at the same time, with a very heavy police presence and many diversions even for pedestrians to keep different factions apart.

Smashing video, both visually and audio. I admire all the participants, they work so hard to achieve these sights and sounds and should be applauded. And thank you Mike for recording and sharing👍

@@AnnofWales21 Hello Ann, and I'm glad you enjoyed my video. I presume, and hope, that everything went well for your trip there last weekend (if I'm correct) to see it all "from the inside". I thought that for the Major General's Review it would be less crowded generally, but the reality was rather different. There were so many other events and activities in the area, including within St James's Park, that it got difficult to move around, and things were chaotic trying to get back to Waterloo station to get out of London afterwards because so many roads and even pedestrian routes were closed and/or diverted. Still, overall I was glad I went.

⁠@@MikeM14-40hi Mike, yes I had a marvellous time last week, thoroughly enjoyed the whole event from start to finish (but wasn’t so keen on the cold wind that rattled around!) The extra crowds, and additional security required, from the other events certainly added unexpected snags for us but heyho! I’m pleased to say that my better (🤔) half enjoyed it far more than he expected and is now quite enthusiastic to attend the Military Musical Spectacular in July 🥳 Well done to you for getting to both last week and this weeks Trooping. Are you going to make it a hat trick and go next week too? I haven’t seen many videos from last week yet, I had some sort of issue whereby I was unable to post comments/replies so came to the conclusion the Wi-Fi where we were staying was iffy😬 (hope this one gets through🤞)

@@AnnofWales21 Hi Ann, yes your comment has got through fine! I'm really glad you enjoyed your day there on 1 June, as I saw from some of your earlier comments elsewhere beforehand how much you were looking forward to it with great anticipation, and of course you had a much longer journey to get there than I have. I'm also pleased that your other half enjoyed it and now looks forward to other events with enthusiasm. I know how windy it was on the day you were there, and should imagine that being seated in an elevated position for 2 or so hours it got pretty cold as well - at least I was walking/running around for most of the time so I got hot rather than cold! Just to clarify - I only went on 1 June, not on 8 June as well, although I did 2 videos of that one day. I was pretty shattered from the travelling experience and had a lot of work to do to put together the videos, and have spent most of the last week catching up with a lot of my other normal work that got put aside. I'll make my mind up nearer the time as to whether I try going on 15 June for the final event, depending on the weather, the wider situation with travel and London, etc.

Thanks! I must admit, I was blissfully unaware of it being a school half term, wrapped up as I was in the minutiae of the timings of all my trains, whether or not the forecast rain would arrive in time to cause proceedings to be called off, and added to with a bad leg and an awful cold (luckily I just avoided any of my filming being disrupted by coughing or sneezing bouts), but having now reviewed the videos I can certainly see that the number, and average level of exuberance, of the young age group is higher than usual. I also was blissfully unaware of any collision - perhaps best I don't ask!

@@MikeM14-40 We were not all that close. I would not expect air traffic control to be barking at me to urgently change course or altitude, Sir. The wall down at the Barracks was packed with children. I am grateful for the larger ladder these days. Some chap hoisted a child with big hair up in front of me on Castle Hill. As if the wind was not bad enough, I had to raise the camera high above my head and crop the elevation. Fun times lie ahead. And sorry to hear about your general condition, Mike. Makes the entire effort for you a lot more challenging. Take it easy Commander !

What rock did you crawl out from under?

@@robertgraffham6440 somewhere with standards.

Hi Charlotte, yes, it was a long and fun-packed day with superb weather, although in my case more "jippee" than "yippee" ("jip" being an old slang expression for pain) because 4 hours is a lot of time to spend between events, walking around crowded parks with a bad leg without many places to sit (I couldn't afford to spend too much time sitting in pubs...). Still, I'm glad I went.

@@MikeM14-40honey, I fully understand about the, “jippee” part. I admire anyone who is able to get around in any capacity to video and film

Hi Mr Baton, thanks, and no need for apologies! I don't think I actually saw you, but that was probably because I had a bad leg that day in London (probably from the train journey!) so getting through the crowds quickly but safely was taking even more concentration than usual. Hopefully it's getting better now. Yes, the tour guides can be a source of noise, and seem to turn up once I've picked what I thought was a relatively quiet spot. I have to remember though, that they with their tour-parties have every bit as much right to be there as I have. I've always liked Aces High. I gather you're from a brass band background, and particularly as you mention having played the soprano cornet. I was in brass bands for decades, with my main and favourite instrument being euphonium. The euph part in the brass band version of Aces High was very different in places to what I hear in the military band version.

Thanks for the comment Mr Baton. I did see you very briefly on Sunday, but not even time to say a quick hello as we were going in opposite directions in the crowds at the edge of the park - I was going towards Horse Guards Parade, just before the Coldstream Guards service there, and you were heading towards Birdcage Walk. There were certainly plenty of events taking place (although I didn't know about some of them at the time) and on at least a couple of points I was convinced that I could hear other bands in the vicinity. Looking at your line-up of videos you certainly covered a lot of events, and I'll enjoy watching them in detail over the next day or two. The weather was indeed kind on the events, with the forecast thunderstorms not really materialising. Regarding the Cavalry Sunday event, certainly I remember the Yeomanry band, together with BAB Tidworth, massing with the Household Cavalry in the 2022 event, courtesy of your and others' videos - that was before I'd started going to events myself but probably one of the main things that got me interested in the bands and events.

Hi Charlotte, yes only about my fourth time there and it's all a lot more complicated than Windsor. Plus the crowds are not as friendly!

... and the Band of the Household Cavalry somewhere down Hyde Park ;)

Hi - I think you're absolutely right. When I was walking around early in the morning I heard a tour guide mentioning the royal marines to his tour group, and then later I heard yet another band in the distance that I couldn't account for, which sounded as if it was coming from a northerly direction. Furthermore, I've now just seen on a schedule that "Graspan Parade" was on, at about 11:45.

Hi - I think you're absolutely right. When I was walking around early in the morning I heard a tour guide mentioning the royal marines to his tour group, and then later I heard yet another band in the distance that I couldn't account for, which sounded as if it was coming from a northerly direction. Furthermore, I've now just seen on a schedule that "Graspan Parade" was on, at just before midday.

Hi@@wu_1116 , yes, I see now from the schedules that Cavalry Sunday was on, at Hyde Park, which is probably just about within earshot when the wind is light. There are videos of that now on RU-vid.

@@MikeM14-40 The Band of the Royal Yeomanry were also on parade at Cavalry Sunday. Alot going on for the same day