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The HCMR Band often provides State Trumpeters for ceremonial events of state. The HCMR Band, specifically when denoted as the "Massed Mounted Bands" on parade, is led by two musicians on Shire horses who are playing the timpani. They steer the reins of the drum horses with their feet, due to their hands being occupied with the drumsticks.
Today, the sole 64-strong Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry, created in 2014 with the merger of the by now two surviving bands and thus is the largest of all the bands in the regular Army proper, maintains the long heritage and traditions of the mounted band in the United Kingdom, with the band sporting two drumhorses and mounted fanfare ...
Trooping the Colour, Horseguards Parade, Central London, June 2013. Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. [1]
The British royal family, including Princess Kate Middleton, is gearing up for one of their biggest events of the year. The annual Trooping the Colour ceremony commemorates the monarch’s ...
The massed bands during the Beating Retreat in 2008. The Beating Retreat is a massive gathering of the band's of the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade.It is based on a 16th-century military ceremony in England that was first used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
Ahead of Swift’s first of eight concerts at Wembley Stadium, the British Army band debuted the “Changing of the Guard (Taylor’s Version)” on Friday, June 21. As the U.K. troops switched ...
The 5 regiments of the Foot Guards have their own regimental marches, that are each performed by their respective regimental bands. The following is a list of the notable Regimental Marches for military regiments of the British Army. In addition, all regiments have additional pieces for slow marches, marches for mounted parades and pipe marches.
Army Air Corps – Recce Flight (Quick); Thievish Magpie (based on La gazza ladra) (Slow) Special Reconnaissance Regiment - Argus; Royal Army Chaplains' Department – Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary) Royal Logistic Corps – On Parade (Quick); Lion, Sword and Crown (Slow) Royal Army Medical Service – Here's a Health unto His Majesty