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- baton + sent it whirling into the air several times - to the delight of the crowd. The playing was magnificent + I hated to see them file through the big gates. The pipers were followed by complete darkness + then as the lights came on 5 trumpeters of the Royal Netherlands Grenadiers were in front of us. Their fanfare was taken up by the rest of their band + in they came - about 135 of them in their splendid uniforms. They put on a very good show + marched again into the darkness. Again the lights turned to the castle gates + there, in solid phalanyx [phalanx] with white hats, white sambrown's + seafords, stood the R.A.F. [Royal Air Force] band + drill squad. Their precision drill display will be hard to equal. A hollow square of 4 ranks 10 men on face went through the most complicated routine in perfect time, without a spoken command. The french cavalry lacked imagination but had about 50 very lovely horses. The cavalry trumpet is hardly a musical instrument + multiplying it by 40 doesn't help much. However the massed military bands of the Scots Guards, Black Watch, Seaforths + Cameron Highlanders - 260 of them did
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