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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

I wouldnt argue with it.....

mrbassbone · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

mrbassbone · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

EricAckroyd · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

No wonder the horse is looking hacked off !!

"Hmmm......I spend all those years doing Royal Tournaments being kept awake by those Massed Royal Marines Bandsmen coming out of their bar !! Now its all over, what do they do ? ..........strap a big drum either side of me and bang the crap out of it !!!!"

Spacerunner · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

Biggest massed band ever was Horse Guards do in 1958 (?). 600 bandies, filled the playing field at South Barracks. Even had twenty something tenor drums.
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Mr Bass Trombone · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

I think you would struggle to find one Tenor drummer today let alone a tenor drum. Horse guards Tercentenary year 1964, over 400 musicians on parade, also all the flag bearers around the perimeter of the said parade were also members of the RMB, also please remember in those day's we also had reserves, so how many good question, but we were 28 frontage. number of Drum majors 5 Charlie Bowden at the head, then if memory seves me right there would have been, Colin Bowden(no relation) Ports Group, the late Geoff Knox Ply Group, Alfie Laming, and either Matt Dillon from Whale Island(HMS Exellent) or Ken Booth who I think even to this day is the only member of the Band Service to attain the position of Drum Major. I know Ken who was Basson Player by trade did the first US tour as a D/M the next year so it may well have been him. Also in the said year 1964 I had the privelege of being chosen to represent the Band Service at the the reception given by the Lord Mayor of London at the Guidhall, also attend the Tercentenary Ball at the Lyceum in the Strand in the precence of Her Majesty and Prince Phillip who was then and still is our Captain General.
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2nd Clarinet · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

Sydney 2000 .....Olympics

Two thousand marching musicians!!!!!!

Not counting the orch in bottom left corner.

Picture below,

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Pusser · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

Need more work on their dressing!

Mr Bass Trombone, "also all the flag bearers around the perimeter of the said parade were also members of the RMB,"

Ground Keepers, please.
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Nick B · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: