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'Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1980', music disc, 1980

Music disc by EMI Records Limited, 1980. Produced by Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) L P G Dow; Deputy Producer, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) D J S Murray; Director of Music: Captain D E Pryce. Performers include Massed Pipe Bands: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Pipe Major J Allan; Drum Major H Tomkins); 1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (Pipe Major C Clark; Drum Major A J Keane); 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Pipe Major R Pinkman; Drum Major M Hickman); 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Pipe Major B Macrae, Drum Major B Huntington); the Vancouver Police Pipe Band (Pipe Major A D Perrie, Drum Major F J Hall).

Military Bands: Royal Band of HM the Sultan of Oman (Director of Music: Lieutenant Colonel T Crichton); the Alamein Band of the Royal Tank Regiment (Director of Music: Captain F R Fitch); the Band of the Royal Engineers (Aldershot) (Director of Music: Captain D E Pryce); the Band of the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (Bandmaster: Mr R C Darke); the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas (2nd King Edward VII's Own Goorkhas) (Director of Music: Major H C R Bently); Bugles of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, King Edward VII's Own Goorkhas (Bugle Major Khimbahadur Thapa). Also performing, the City of Wellington Pipe Band (Pipe Major Frank MacKinnon, Drum Major G Coventry); The Marching Band of California State University (Director of Bands: Larry G Curtis).

The Tattoo is an annual series of music parades and demonstrations of military skills at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It attracts visitors from around the world and raises money for military and civilian charities.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2001-12-44-125

Copyright/Ownership

Copyright: EMI Records Limited

Location

National Army Museum Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-12-44-125