Precision Group

[Ace]

These guys look pretty good to me. Don't know where they are from. Portugal? Brazil?

I can't make out if the tuba players are using straps to support their horns.

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Ace

[Karl H.]

Don't know who they are, but that might be the Swedish Military Tatoo in Stockholm...

Karl "not a Klue" H.

[scottw]

These guys look pretty good to me. Don't know where they are from. Portugal? Brazil?

I can't make out if the tuba players are using straps to support their horns.

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Ace

They are Norwegian, but I can't read which unit they might be.and, yes, they look pretty good and play better. I'd bet on the same type straps the British military units use.

[imperialbari]

They are the drill section of the Norwegian Royal Lifeguard. The hall looks very much like the big one in Oslo, where they use to have big tattoos.

The players are not professionals. A new band is drafted every year and rehearses music and drill during the winter. Then does the parades and drill shows during the summer, whereafter they disband to make room for a new band.

The band has 3 Eb tubas and 3 BBb tubas. Some years the band starts out with a seventh tubist as a spare. The front row has 6 trombones. The 6 tubists march in the 2nd row. They march in very close ranks due to the narrow inner-city in the old Norwegian towns.

Klaus

[imperialbari]

A variant in precision:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3sHHn71Vbo

[GC]

Dude.

[David Richoux]

His Majesty the King's Guards of Norway - parade, ceremony, concert and exhibition unit.

Google is your friend

[imperialbari]

And much Google translation is nonsense.

The drill unit now is called 3rd company of the guard battalion. Band and bugle corps have direct recruitment, whereas the honour guard members (those are the rifle jugglers) are picked during the equivalent of the US boot camp.

Klaus

[David Richoux]

And much Google translation is nonsense.

The drill unit now is called 3rd company of the guard battalion. Band and bugle corps have direct recruitment, whereas the honour guard members (those are the rifle jugglers) are picked during the equivalent of the US boot camp.

Klaus

Especially bad for translating to or from Dutch! I have had some conversations using Google where the recipient justs says "Stop! - Way too Bad..." (the 2nd link I posted goes in to more detail about 3rd Company.)

There was a unit from the US Navy Fire Control School (the sailors who aim the ship's guns and missiles - not put out fires that did similar precision marching with the tossing the rifles overhead with sharp bayonets. I don't think they are around anymore, but I used to see them in parades a lot - very impressive!

On another note, a former band member of the California Repercussions made some straps for his tuba and the trombones that had a pivot point - they could do ZZ Top style spins with their horns! It helped to lock the slides and take out mouthpieces...)

[imperialbari]

“direct impression” doesn’t make me think of direct recruitment based on some sort of application system. The level varies from year to year. One of my correspondents wasn’t too impressed by the band he was in. Didn’t spoil is own further education, though.

It belongs to the background for this drill company, that Norway has a very efficient school band system and a very efficient association of local bands. There are consultants organizing contests and further education of band members and band masters. There are two boarding schools working as well as pre-conservatories as schools for the best young amateurs.

Klaus