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British Army: Type: military band: Role: public duties: Size: 35 musicians [1] Part of: Royal Regiment of Scotland: Headquarters: Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh, Scotland [2] Nickname(s) SCOTS Band: Motto(s) "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit " (Latin) "No One Provokes Me With Impunity" March: Quick: Scotland the Brave Slow: Royal Regiment of Scotland Slow ...
Founded in 1910 as the Army School of Piping (later renamed the Army School of Bagpipe Music), the School was formerly located at Edinburgh Castle but is now located at Inchdrewer House near Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, Scotland and is administered by the Infantry Training Centre, it is also affiliated with the Royal Corps of Army Music.
The origins of Scottish music are said to have originated over 2,300 years ago following the discovery of Western Europe's first known stringed instrument which was a "lyre-like artifact" which was discovered on the Isle of Skye. The earliest known traces of published Scottish music dates from 1662.
The band was originally formed in 1958 for service with the Territorial 7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion of The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), based at the East Claremont Street drill hall in Edinburgh, and they wore a Hunting Stewart kilt, the uniform of the old 'Dandy 9th' (Highlanders) Battalion of the Royal Scots who, as Highlanders living in Edinburgh, refused to wear the Royal Scots ...
Royal Corps of Army Music (1 C, 24 P) Royal Marines Band Service (7 P) ... Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland; Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards;
The British Army. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. Anon, A War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 1914–1919, 1927/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, ISBN 1-843426-19-6. Maj R. Money Barnes, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London: Seeley Service, 1956/Sphere 1972.
Regimental badge of the Scots Guards Drum major Sgt. Martin Godsman in 2009.. The Scots Guards is a regiment that was formed by King Charles I in 1642. It is known that in 1716 a small band of "hautbouys" existed; however, the precise origins of the Band of the Scots Guards are unknown.
Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...