March to ‘Orb and Sceptre’ - The Household Divisions Military Musical Spectacular | Military Events 

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Thank you! Originally I wasn’t allowed to until someone from one of the bands let me through as that night i was in uniform myself!

watch the Junior leaders drilling and bands playing you will be surprised going back for as long as you like Try the JL RASC RCT 1964.65 for example. Many of the regular Army started our military careers as JL's.

True but the Royal Marines band service especially the drummers are second to nobody

I have listened to the bands for over fifty years and without doubt HM Royal Marines are far superior. Sorry but that is the truth.

The Royal Marines may disagree!

The Band of HM Royal Marines hold a blowtorch to any other military band including the 2nd Mortlake Fife and Drum Band circa 1955

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Hello Canada thank you for watching and enjoying our military bands. 🇬🇧🇨🇦

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Thank you! Yeah the rain was a bit annoying! But it worked out in the end!

@@militaryevents107 the thing is, I'm long way away and barely noticed the transitions. Never been there, so brain thinks-- "oh that was a little shower. Wimbledon microclimates"

Yes, cleverly done wasn't it? Drum Majors in Bearskins for a few seconds. Also the crossing the road bit. Well spotted

It must drive the Directors of music of the bands mad getting the mix and timing of the various pieces Wright. The Trooping not so much as much Of the music is played in fixed points and doesn't vary such as the Regimental slow and Quick marches and Les Huganaut at the beginning and The Grenadiers Slow march when the King's Colour is being trooped through the ranks

Hi daveleadbeater7652, I'm very happy to be told that I'm wrong, but I think it is unlikely that new cornets, of a different model, would have been issued "en bloc", and that, even if they had been, it is unlikely that this on its own would account for the difference in sound. I think the reality is a combination of several factors. Players of brass instruments, perhaps more so than some types of instruments, can vary their sound depending on the style of music, the occasion and context, and the kind of emotions that are to be elicited from the listener. The way the piece is written, and scored between the various instruments, will have a bearing. Also where the different instruments are positioned in the band, and from what direction they are recorded, will make a difference. I think some instruments are more "directional", than others - for example I'd say that a trombone is extremely directional. With the first march, as an example, to me it sounds much more "choral" in style than most military marches - for example the harmonies in the "loud trombone passage" (I'm sure there'll be technical term!) starting at 01:21 . Yet another variable is the context of the other types of instruments playing at the time. For example, if most of the woodwinds aren't playing because it's pouring with rain, then in relative terms the cornets might sound less "brassy" because there isn't such a contrast with some of the woodwind sounds as there would normally be. I hope my "ramble" makes some sense!

That cymbal player will either play all percussion instruments, or play another instrument and has just been tasked with this for this event. To add to that, to play cymbals properly in a ,arching band can be very difficult!

I wonder which member of the Royal Family was present for the Drum Majors to be in Household uniform as opposed to Home Service uniform like the redt of the bands

Me too, but the Lord Mayor of London is also entitled to that honour as I believe he helped fund the state dress of the Guards shortly after the Restoration of the King

One of the perks of being a Warrant Officer

I think you will find all Foot Guards Bands are there hence the 5 drum majors

all the people in the band go through the same training as the ones in the guards, and they are trained medics i think as well!

The massed bands are just that. This "Band" are the Regimental bands of the Grenadiers (white plume) Coldstream (Red plume) Scots (no plume), Irish (blue plume) and Welsh (white over green over white). All bands mentioned irrespective of Regiment in the Army are indeed duel rolled as stretcher bearers. The corps of drums and pipes and drums within the Food Guards are the Guns platoon of individual Foot Guard btns

You don't have to listen to it, you can bugger off and do something else 😂