The Military Horn Hangout

Parades, Pomp and Presidents Members of the French horn sections from two of the greatest military bands in the world - The “President’s Own” United States Marine Band and the Band of the Coldstream Guards in London - come together here live on the Horn Hangouts to talk to Sarah Willis about their careers in the military, compare their jobs and remember special memories and events. A fantastic insight into being a musician in an army band. Starring from The Presidents Own Master Sergeant Hilary Harding (Principal Horn) Gunnery Sergeant Douglas Quinzi Staff Sergeant Cecilia Buettgen Staff Sergeant Claire Ross Starring from the Band of the Coldstream Guards Colour Sergeant Nicholas Stones Sergeant Michael Rimmer Lance Sergeant Chris Shelton Lance Corporal Kavel Alexander

Transcript

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So hi everybody welcome back to the horn hangout so great to be here again and i have some amazing guests for you tonight but first i want to say hello to all of you in the chat i know a lot of you are watching on facebook welcome to you um if you have any juicy questions from my wonderful guests tonight get over onto our website sarah willis.live and you will be able to ask us any juicy questions and we’ll see if we answer them or not we’ll do our very best if you’re watching on the website i can see you here on the chat it’s

Incredible where you’re all watching from slovenia new york um l.a annie basler randy gardner new jersey how nice claire’s dad is watching v vica is watching from the navy symphony band of mexico david elliot who is a member of the marine band during the johnson years i tell you they are all here and a big welcome to major stuart halliday from um who will be answering any of the british army musician questions that we don’t get to today so um welcome to you all i hope you can all see this let me know um where you’re watching from because everyone in the ch in the

In the hangout today will have a copy of the chat later on so they’ll be able to see without further ado hi guys hi big welcome ev everyone’s um they’re being quite quiet at the moment i’m sure we’re going to change that um i am incredibly honored and and and very very humbled that you guys have said yes uh to joining in on this hangout because i think actually it’s the first time you’ve met each other we have four members of the horn section of the president’s own marine army what’s the uh tell me hillary what’s the how do you say the official title it’s

Quite a mouthful it is the president’s own united states marine band that’s that’s a lot that’s a lot we’re just we’re calling you p.o [Laughter] um big welcome to you guys and a big welcome um from my hometown london to the um the members of the horn section from the cold stream guards band of the cold stream guards with one guest chris shelton from the irish guard so welcome to all of you um it’s the first time you’ve all met each other isn’t it have you it’s about time you sort of well i guess probably now is not quite the right time for trans global

Visits but uh but i think we have to set up some sort of horn horn event going on between the two of the two bands let me introduce we started off with hillary who is this this is the hardest part of the hangout i’ve written it all down because everyone has a different title hillary harding master sergeant hilary harding who’s the principal horn of the president’s own marine united states banned right close enough um welcome and doug just i just saw you down there gunnery sergeant doug quincy welcome co-principal where are you you’re done you see i see you all probably in a different uh

Or order that you will i don’t know where you are sitting but you’re sitting right next to hillary online i see myself i’m not sure if you see me i i see you i see you welcome and then we have um two gorgeous girls here we have um cecilia bitkin staff sergeant um welcome and star sergeant claire ross welcome to you you’re the the newbie right more or less um i just had my two-year anniversary at the end of august so so you really are because uh hillary you you’re actually you well doug came right after you didn’t he but you’ve been in the bank

Forever 17 years now great yeah but you you you didn’t start off as principal horn no i didn’t i started off this section like everybody else and then i was assistant principal like doug at in 2008 so i held that title for a bit and then when the principal retired i was i moved up well we’ve got a lot of stuff to talk about about your auditions about how people can get into the band and all the questions people are we’ve had some great some some great questions around already um mostly about marching and playing um but may i introduce my my great friends from

The band of the coldstream guards who um i have a great history with and we did some wonder wonderful filming together and i embarrassed myself thoroughly and if you all behave i think we have a clip of that jakob’s got a clip of that up his sleeve for later um color sergeant nicholas stones we call him nick hi nick how you doing well thank you for you um where are you exactly i’m actually in my boss’s office at work can you come a tiny bit closer to the microphone so we can hear you better and you’ve got your polo shirt on with the with the

Cold stream guards um emblem and what what what’s that little furry thing next to you can you show us this thing yes hey now we’ll get to that later but thank you so much for for bringing those with you um um sergeant michael rimmer we call him mick how you doing i’m good thank you and you’ve where are you you’re at work as well i recognize that room well i’m actually in the band sergeant major’s office next to nick he’s that way is that is that socially distancing in the army so you’ve nicked the other hats i have i’ve got a welsh guards plume here

And an irish guards plume here okay well that’s good because actually chris um lance sergeant chris shelton who’s right up next to me i don’t know where you are and everybody else’s um but you’re from the irish guards yeah that’s right but you guys have played quite a lot do you play all the time together basically don’t you effectively yeah we’re kind of the same band we come together a lot as kind of a masked band and i’m part of the household division horn quartet along with nick and mick which maybe a lot of you heard playing at the ihs and ghent last year we

Have a little clip of that if i can manage the screen sharing i’m going to be showing you a couple of clips if it works and last but not at all least we have um lance corporal cavel alexander welcome hey hey everyone hi welcome and you’re the newbie as well even though you’ve been i am the newbie yes i am the newbie the baby to the red machine [Laughter] but you’ve been in the army for a while yes i’ve been in the army for uh 13 years i actually left the army in 2009 for four years and came back in in 2013 yes and we

Will be uh you have a little surprise for us later on as well i think so that’s good that’s good if everybody behaves anyway yes welcome to all of you um there are so many people um that are saying that they tried marching with a horn in high school and then it’s so hard um there was something that um that hillary told me yesterday can we start off with that hillary you told me about the first women to march in the president’s own band well it wasn’t actually in the president’s own during the world war yeah but during world war ii when all the men

Were off fighting they wanted to form a band to sort of get people excited and to raise money so they formed an all female band and members of the president’s own went down to train them which at that time was all male and it was a unit of all women and they had to march in two inch heels and they were issued lipstick rouge and nail polish and a special color of red and they had to take care of their completely white uniforms and they traveled all over the country for three to four years during the war raising raising money well there’s no what about

The the horn players that they have to wear lipstick i saw claire i don’t know if they had to wear the lipstick when they performed i would hope not um but but they were issued it and for photos and for all of the all of the selling of war bonds they were required to look very ladylike well goodness you guys the coal stream gods had you you you’ve uh danae she was she was and you you you aren’t a stranger to girl uh horn players you you’ve had some just not at the moment you have a job free so girls get over there you really

Nick what’s the situation right now in your horn section well we’ve got a girl um lucy burch is joining us hopefully in a couple of weeks time she’s just in training just so but we’ve had quite a lot of females we had a lady called rachel lee it was a very cool place she moved on to a regional band and um we had denied briefly um he went to the irish guards um and so now we’re getting lucy so um the sexual completely great great so for those of you who are watching um who don’t know what these two bands do um doug can you

Can you describe your job well can you give us your job description uh well we we have one principal mission as uh as members of the band and that’s to provide music for the president of the united states and the commandant of the marine corps which means um we’re requested at the white house a lot but also at all sorts of military functions in the washington dc area to support the commandant most notably we support military honors ceremonies at arlington national cemetery but we also play military ceremonies for uh the arrivals of uh dignitaries and other other officers from other militaries um and various other

Ceremonies that that pop up basically if we’re directed by either the white house or the commandant’s office we go um and in in addition to all of that we have uh we have our musical duties which include uh concerts uh concert series year round we have a summer concert series those are outdoor concerts but we also have a very involved chamber music program that uh that uh goes basically the whole year around and of and there’s also of course our national tour every october uh we take event not this coming october but uh every october we go to a different sec uh segment of the

Country so that is uh that is basically everything okay mick what would your job description be well we provide music uh first state so romania will say the change in the guards queen’s birthday parades um cenotaph um festival of remembrance um but we also do um a lot more than that concert series and yeah we travel all around very all around the world can you see this you got oh no no no no no no no no no we don’t want that one we wanted another one sorry guys i wanted i wanted this one i don’t know how to do that no oh my goodness

Okay you see this is what’s going to happen i don’t someone’s got to help me with these i’ve got i have all these things like i’ve had a wonderful thing if you you all marching it and i’m only getting the sarah’s music horn challenge which i do not want to show you yet um um tell us about the um the the duties the birthday celebrations and all that i mean you’re not based in london all the time you have to go outside you’re at in windsor i mean you know where else do you play you’re not only based at buckingham palace where is this mate

Yeah change we also changed the garden not um mostly at the i would say at buckingham palace but we also uh changed the guard at windsor castle so uh we uh we we marched from victoria barracks which is about 500 um half kilometer away i suppose much of a very steep steep hill and change the guard there also but at the easter time we also do an easter court which means we go right to the quadrangle in the middle of windsor castle and play on the grass there but that only happens at least and may i just show you guys i found it i’ve worked

Out how to do it look at this and we’ll be watching out for a new maneuver a real announcer to maintain the social distancing while turning and as they set up the beginning out there she is it’s been called feathering because of its distinctive extending formation okay hey nick where are you um that’s my no where are you that’s my phone four men poor people down on the right hand side there you are i see you the one on the test okay now i gotta work out and turn it off okay got it are you still there but i love to see that that is

For me pomp and circumstance you know and and as a brit i mean i was born in america but my my my mother’s british and i feel the brit that that’s that’s what we imagine when we you know when we see you all marching this is the the castles and the incredible incredible uh yeah nobility of it all um but i couldn’t find a video of you at the white house unfortunately president own horn players why was that aren’t there any those don’t tend to get out as much it’s on the news because the way the if we’re marching at the white house it’s usually

For um for fourth of july which is a closed event or it’s for an official arrival and those actually rotate among all the other premier bands in the city because every branch in the u.s has its own what’s called the premier band um which is stationed in dc to do all of sort of the the official things here mainly um for burials and ceremonies at arlington so those tend to rotate um there’s a really cool one of us when the pope arrived and maybe 10 years ago i lose track of time um but those those tend to be more closed events if any of you

Watching for i know of any good links for all of us to enjoy please put them up in the chat that would be fantastic because i i did my best to find some but this screen sharing thing stresses me and especially when facebook is here and the live chat is here and and you’re all waiting for good questions there are some good questions coming in actually um marie asked have all of your guests served in their countries as military first how does that work i mean chris how does it work in in england if are you how are you trained are you trained in the

Military or do you go in as a musician you stay a musician uh so the military obviously implies um a wide range of trades um musician being one of them but every single person that joins the military completes what we call basic training which is everything from learning how to look after yourself in the field to fire in a rifle to ironing your kit and looking smart um so as such primarily avrol is a soldier um but once everyone completes that training you will go off to do your kind of secondary training for musicians we go to nella hall and studying music before being posted

Out to a band um so yeah it looks like primarily we are all soldiers first but music takes up the vast vast majority of what we do claire how about president’s own well how you guys you actually all of you came from conservatories right i actually went to a state school but um first we have to win the audition um if you’re in one of the field bands you have to go through the enlistment process first um but for us we actually win the audition and then we enlist um so if you’re in the president’s own you don’t actually go to recruit training or basic

Training or anything um we’re other than the coast guard the only non-deployable units in the military so we we haven’t gone to basic training we’re not rifle trained uh we have certain markers on our uniform that designate that we are not rifle trained inside as a liar instead of cross rifles um so yeah i mean we are enlisted members of the military and and you know we do the duties of the military and get paid just as other people military but we are um not deployable i was sure i read that all of you went to um music college but obviously i was wrong but

You did cecilia you did didn’t you you went yes yeah yeah i went to school at the cincinnati conservatory of music for my master’s degree and claire claire did go to a school of music um there’s just a difference in the terminology that they use for the music schools here in the us so she went to uh michigan state university right claire and i went to western michigan university for my undergraduate degree and then to the conservatory but they’re they’re they’re all music schools they’re all music and and your audition process we were talking about it yesterday tell us that that fascinated me i mean

In germany in my orchestra you have to apply and then we think about whether to invite someone and then we you know there’s a first round a second round third round but only if you get an invitation but in your band it’s completely different that’s correct so for our band they put out an ad i’ll tell you my experience i think that’ll be the best way to kind of explain it but i saw an ad in the international musician and the marine band will also post the openings on facebook for a section horn player and in our band as hillary mentioned earlier everyone comes in

As a section player so when you get the list of eight of excerpts to play it’s to demonstrate that you have command of all ranges of the horn uh once you’re interested in the position you do submit your resume but essentially if you are eligible to enlist in the marine corps meaning between the ages of 18 and 34 then you’re welcome to come and take our audition we don’t turn anyone away so for my audition there were 100 applicants that showed up for that day now the similarities kind of start here with your audition i’m assuming that everything is behind a screen for at least

The first round uh some a lot of times for the second round as well so we went from 100 musicians to 12 in the first round and then the second round from 12 to four four to two they had us play again and then finally they said actually we’ve got two spots open and so my friend tim and i joined the band at that time but i think it’s a really great thing that people don’t know about the marine band because so many orchestras do expect you to have a very complex resume to show that you have experience and the qualification to be in that

Group but this group if you can play then we’ll hire you i mean if you’re a solid horn player i think that puts you on a little more equal footing um and hillary i think you mentioned something about um the five minutes that we give to everyone right yeah we guarantee we will list because i’ve sat on several committees even the one where we had to listen to 100 people which is a lot um and we we people are guaranteed five minutes you must usually they get more muslim great things we’ve heard some really wonderful things and some really not in those five minutes but

Sometimes it’s a great brain break and then do you have like do you have to get tenure do you have a trial period in your band kind of the first the first four year enlistment is kind of the tenure process but in all honesty they can let you go at any time um if they choose to or if you step out of line and that doesn’t typically happen but um typically if you make it through the first four years then you you can make it for a full career 20 years they won’t guarantee you past 20 but at 20 years you get a full pension

Okay kavel how do you get into the band of the coal stream guards um well um like everybody else it’s a it’s a very prestigious place um to to get into any of the household division bands there’s five of them and for me it’s i’ve been waiting 17 years to get to this point and i finally got here um and uh i went outside i left um cameras to go and do something we call an e2 post out in out in scotland which is up north of of england and um when i was uh when my time was coming to an end i was asked

If um i wanted to go to london because it was always it’s always been a career aspiration of mine and finally the opportunity came and i was like yes yes please yes please i want to go to london and uh i was very specific i said i wanted to go to the band of the coldstream guards because i wanted to work with um color sergeant nick stones because he is the best in the army so [Laughter] yeah so um yeah i got the opportunity then and then um yeah i grabbed it with both hands fantastic and what um mick what happens with when you do

You you have to do audition you go and play and then you get a trial how does it work with your band the bands but um the core of army music and that is now very open so you can you can transfer or you can get posted or assigned to any band any household division band any um any what we call regional ban so outside of london uh literally we don’t audition anymore you you get either um placed or um if you you know if you we give a posting preference three different preferences and we will put our one two and three where we want

To go and uh maybe we’ll get one of those or maybe they’ll put us somewhere totally different but yeah that’s the system now that’s the system then there um thanks that there are i’m just going to look at the chat for a bit and let you know what’s going on here because we’ve got people from bands from all over the world i mentioned mexico jeremy from from from france from the front the band there is is on i’m gareth trott is watching i think you know who gareth hello gareth um gareth a gareth is a euphonium is that right tenderhorn he’s a euphonium player in

The irish guardsman irish guard that’s right i met him at a in birmingham um and he has a question for hillary um how often do you do marching band events in the president’s own on average well before covent it was weekly um but the beauty of our band is we we actually have enough musicians for two complete bands um we have ten horns in our section um and that’s because of our tour and because of our association with the white house we have to be available to provide musicians whenever asks which is can be quite last-minute or can be for something very odd like irish

Ensembles or something um and we will figure out a way to provide it i didn’t understand that something very odd um well whatever instrumentation whatever irish ensembles no no but i didn’t understand why you’d be called up to do an irish ensemble you you have to i have to we have to mention that your band is not just a band you’re an orchestra and chamber music and a and uh irish band you’re a swing band i saw as well you’re like everything we are literally whatever type of music the white house or the commandant requests and we will find people in our organization that can

Play that type of music and provide it that is we have people who we have a trumpet player who is a very accomplished guitarist who plays guitar at the white house quite often because we need an extra for a rock band or a jazz ensemble or a guitar and flute so we but we marched so we march i mean it depends it’ll be weeks where i do nothing but marching at either arlington or at our friday night tattoos or um for some other arrival event or a change of command um and then there’ll be weeks where i do nothing but concert work um so it

Just depends on the rotation and depends on what is what is being asked to the band at the time can i ask you girls something um on all the the concert videos i’ve seen you wearing enormous blue or white skirts um the white skirts uh are really quite voluminous i think is the word um you do not march in those do you no thank you quite impressive and who was it one of you said that you went you you when you do education stuff the kids go and hide under them i had that happen once where two small children out of daycare ended up underneath

My skirt while i played a christmas carol quite impressive um do you i’ve got a question for me um the music requested from the white house does it tend to be more sort of popular or does it tend to be more classical depends on the administration each administration has their own preferences i’ve served under three different commanders-in-chief and each one had their own specific musical taste president george w bush really enjoyed country music so we provided a lot of country music bands um president obama was a big fan of jazz so we played we sent lots of jazz combos and such and president trump is

Actually a fan of pop’s music so sort of like um new york phil in the park type music so we play a lot of of broadway covers and and things like that so it’s very dependent upon the request of of whoever is in charge nick nick what does the queen like because sometimes you see her during these occasions and she looks rather bored but then sometimes you see her and she’s really enjoying i think she likes the horses the best right i’m not sure i mean everything is better that we played for her and lots of things like trooping my color and the cenotaph it’s

Very similar music every time if we do small ceremonial things like dinners we we always have to send in a list of music to be checked first or sometimes they’ll just send out requests and it’s it’s similar to the present summer it varies from whichever royal um we’re performing in front of can you tell us who likes what i’m dying to know look i wore my british earrings well i i reckon it’s red white and blue so it would fit for everybody for all of us can you tell us who likes what i can’t because it’s um it’s all we have a big selection process

For the music or things like the um trooping the color and we get the the general and the garrison some major and all the senior officers come and listen to the band we’ll play it beforehand and they’ll debate which pieces they think are most appropriate so i’m too small in the in the pay scale to to know who’s actually requested what i played for the queen once when she was here in berlin and and someone said oh she doesn’t like the classical stuff and and i was playing my heart out for and i looked over and she was reading her menu so i just thought

Oh well but i i’m sure she enjoyed it i’m sure her spirit enjoyed it somehow um there’s some great major holiday is doing a brilliant job of ask answering all the questions for for for for you guys it’s doing fantastic um sarah says this horn hangout is beautiful um my god child stan is watching said hi auntie sarah um um anika asked quite a clever question i think annika’s in south africa she wants to know which composer straddles the gap between marching band and orchestra the best what what do you enjoy playing chris what do you enjoy playing in the band are there is there

A classical composer or i mean i guess i daren’t ask if everyone likes to play susa because i just i know the president’s owner put out a a whole recording of susan there’s loads of them i’m not sure we’re even done [Laughter] i’m quite a fan of shotakovich which might be a slightly odd one but um things like festive overture and these kind of jazz suites and so on um and if um correct me if i’m wrong i’m sure a lot of those have actually been orchestrated for wind and military band by shostakovich himself um but know that they’re yeah very enjoyable to play he’s

Definitely one of my favorite composers when anything like that comes out i’m very happy doug how about you you know i will say that uh in in in a band like ours it’s it’s you can do worse playing souza with this band like the parts are parts aren’t particularly interesting but if you are just kind of listening to what’s going on around you it’s quite pleasant um i think i think one of my favorites uh to play in the band is uh is granger it’s always a treat when there’s when there’s a piece by granger and especially with such a strong horn section we can

Really you know get after some of those moments if you are how often do all ten of you play together uh as far as i know only at the inauguration and even then it’s uh it’s uh the numbers sometimes change from year to year but when we are when we’re playing for the swearing-in ceremony at inauguration you’ll see all of us just right below um the stage for all that’s happening and then i guess after the inauguration there’s a there’s a parade where all of us are tend to cross and if i may if you can see this um you did a huge horn ensemble

Concert um in july kudos i was watching i was there and i just thought how on earth do you have chops like that after such a long time in lockdown listen to this you guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right now i i actually everybody clapped after that you know um and you couldn’t hear it it was silence in there well we played for an empty room because of coped so it’s very strange to do concerts for the masses you can’t see oh my goodness here we go it’s your friend it’s becky god this is multitasking um it was a great concert

And also that was doug playing first right and then you played first on um on hansel and gretel oh my goodness those high notes very very very impressive if i could i would scroll forward and find it but we’ll put up a link maybe someone if you can put up a link in the chat to that concert because uh it’s really worth hearing and also your lowbrows are awesome yeah good concert yeah they they really it was it was a great concert but um so everybody all the you’ve all been doing stuff uh for for the for the coveted time you put on this great

Concert also to keep yourself practicing probably because uh having to someone to practice for and um and uh mick mick you guys have put all or a lot of stuff online haven’t you you’ve been recording non-stop um we’ve done a few recordings all the bands have um have done their separate little recordings over this kobe period yeah i believe there are a lot floating around there are there’s a link to them if major holiday is listening maybe he can put the link up because you can download them for free which is which is great the other thing i thought i wish i’d known about was

The president’s own susa play along that that looked like france cecilia what was that what was that all about uh we just had an initiative where the uh the marine band members pre-recorded in their in their homes each of their parts and then we have a really excellent recording lab that put them all together and then we just put an invitation out to to people anyone who wants to play along because all of our marches all the parts are available for free online and you can download those parts and play like kind of play along with the band and quarantine we’ve done a few things

Like that it’s pretty fun i think it like keeps not only us playing but hopefully everyone listening today playing i know we all need a little extra motivation these days so totally totally um the big questions come now which i think the boys are ready for from london um how do you differentiate wealth iris cold stream guards um from each other um are their duties different so can we can we show how if we are watching the queen’s birthday how do we know which band is which mick and mick and nick all the bands different differentiate from the color of the plumes in the um

In the uh in the caps but also the different badges on the on the red tunics and the um how many buttons we have can you give us a close-up somebody have the can you shouldn’t you show it in there looked a bit worried there you see they’re hanging so nicely there okay what have we got what have you got so this is this is my jacket and um because we’re the second guards regiment we have two buttons so our buttons are in twos yeah so the grenadier guards will have a button all the way down they’re in ones the scots guards have three buttons

In a row the irish guards have four buttons in a row as nick nick’s got one nick is pointing out so that’s the uh that’s chris that’s yours indeed it is yeah fine tunic chris is on paternity leave so he hasn’t been even even get to get down and the welsh guards have five buttons in a row but we all have our different badges on here and here um but also with with the plumes this one here is irish guards it’s blue this one here is a um welsh guards which is white green white um the cold stream nick’s got there no he’s there we

Are that’s the cold stream which is red and the white one is the grenadiers that one’s fallen off no it’s a very short and the scots guards don’t have one at all okay that’s how you differentiate the bands all right dear president zone there’s gonna be a test on this later three buttons four buttons five buttons and um nick can you just show us there’s something very important which they have to do before putting on their bare skins mick taught me how to do this um when i was there filming with you can you guys can you can you give us a show us show

Us what you have to do to put it on look at this maybe you know this already but i was very impressed ready nick is now showing you have to shake it like a like a dot and then yeah and then you put it on nick can you just show us the chin strap because for horn players this is quite important so we now need a close-up of nick there we go look at that guys [Laughter] the soldiers so we can get our mouthpieces in but it does just sitting there effects playing slightly lightly usually i can’t imagine i found that i found that like

Literally it’s it’s it’s here so if you’ve got an ins if you’ve got a you know a mouth you’ve got a position that goes down you you can’t you just literally have to move it all up um impressive impressive how about you’re a doug you’ve got yours and and claire you have yours very close by what can you explain i’ve seen some ropes on yours that’s allowed to call it that yeah we have i am pretty junior here so i only have two medals doug has a lot more than i do twice as many but yeah we have these shoulder knots which distinguish us as

Musicians and we also are in red everyone else the marine corps has dark blue coats or black um but this distinguishes us as musicians um on our ceremonial uniform which we march in the pants there’s a white um stripe down the leg that also distinguishes us as musicians as well so that nobody will give you a gun or shoot at us and can i ask a real civilian question what do you have to do to get the medals um we actually rate when we get here because um president eisenhower gave everyone who serves in four different wars um which one is ongoing right now the

National service medal which is the red one and then the blue one is for the global war on terrorism and that’s happening right now so when i got here i rated both of them but there are good conduct medals and i’m not sure because i only have the two maybe doug can explain that one uh well um the members of our band don’t typically have too many medals uh the the woman you mentioned earlier uh becky our concert moderator from the concert you showed uh she served in the army in uh in korea before joining the army field band so uh she she is kind

Of she gets to show off a little bit with her medals she has way more than us um are they the you you you are one band and the the household division are are many and the question is are your duties different chris uh how do your duties differentiate or do you literally you do the changing of the guard one band is on duty that day the next you know you don’t mix up very much except for horn ensemble stuff right no that’s right so yeah we do effectively work as fire fans we kind of share the changing the guard and so on uh we

Come together for the big events like trooping the color um the pro that the cenotaph and and so on but individually um we work with our own respective regiments so um as irish guards band we one of our um jobs throughout the year is to play for some patrick’s day and give support to that parade uh where uh prince william and kate give out shamrocks to all the irish guards um so we all have kind of our regimental duties as such uh to perform um but yeah that’s that’s about it really we do have different jobs it’s half and half really i remember when i

Was there filming with you i was so impressed at the amount of time you have to spend getting your kit ready in the morning that was nodding you guys you have to it’s shoes and and ironing boards and i was impressed i’ve never i’ve never done that much there’s yeah there’s definitely a standard to maintain we’re kind of well known for being immaculately turned out on every parade so you definitely become much more adept and much quicker at doing it um it takes quite a few hours the first few times but you can get it down to half an hour or so maybe cecilia you

Guys inspected as well yes yes we actually have um a few inspections per year so because we are enlisted marines um that inspection also includes a weigh-in that’s very fun you get to weigh in in front of the drum major of the band uh but yes same as the as the other bands we have to uh keep our shoes polished and we have it’s called edge dressing it’s like a black i don’t know what you call like a black nail polish you put around the edges of your shoes you keep them shiny uh you have to iron your trousers and there’s like a specific length

That they have to be and um every yeah everything has to look very good because you’re not only representing yourself and the marine band but your country as well and i i just want to emphasize that that it seems like a lot but there’s kind of a lot on the line you want to make sure that when someone from another country sees you on television that like you you look respectable and you look the part um and also when people come into the band there is a drum major who takes you through and teaches you how to put your uniform together and how to be

More efficient when you’re doing it and how you know so it’s it’s not so overwhelming like when you first get in it’s a lot but then you know within a couple of months you you get the hang of it just becomes part of the routine you get there a little earlier you get it together and then you warm up thanks um and now i’m going to get to the horn nerd questions because we’ve got so many horn players watching there’s a horn hangout but of course we have um we have only got horn players watching i know we have viola players and you know and

We have very loyal cello players that watch um but there’s been a lot of horn questions so i’d love to get to them um people want to know what horns do you play on what what what horns are in uh are do you all mix mix your horns like um uh cavell in your band do you all play on the same horn no right for me i i play on a paxman um a good british paxman yes solid that’s awesome yeah um and i love it it’s that it’s actually a nick’s old horn so uh he’s broken it it’s broken in nicely for me so

Which is nice thank you nick nick are you still playing in alex no we actually do all play on the same one we all play with paxton’s personality what happened to the alex i thought you did have an alex well they all got we all played on alex’s and then um we got off the new horns and we were paxman’s and we we just took them because we have the alexander’s her ages and we loved him but they they do have a lot of wear and tear because we do so much marching and um you know there’s lots of pop holes we go down buttholes

And things and march do you guys march with your double horns like with your concert horns you don’t have two separate horns for a concert and for marching oh my we marched with single b flat horns so that they’re lightweight and then we have a concert horn i hope major halliday heard that [Laughter] no um yeah what’s it called some of our ceremonies are quite long so your back starts to kill you if you’re holding a double horn so the majority of us now have single b flat or single f horns that we march with because the music we play when we march the the

Range is limited enough that you can make do on a lighter weight horn it’s actually much easier to march with a lighter weight horn it doesn’t hurt so badly when you hit a pothole yeah i was just gonna ask mick you were nodding at the pothole think what happens if you hit a pothole you go down carry on what happens if they’re horses in front of you i’ve always wondered that just carry on you marched through it yeah i remember when when i was there and i and we were waiting for you to come you were marching back from the mall and we had one

Chance to get the shot and so i was like standing almost in the middle of the road they were worried because you were supposed to you know you were marching that way and i saw i said look nick’s coming nick’s coming and i saw him coming in afterward and then we did the piece and then you watch but i said afterwards did you see us he was like no and he’d like gone right past me but nick you don’t really see left or right do you you just go straight well we’re supposed to but we do some clock field thing um there’s always some fantastic

Sights we encounter well i was not a fantastic sight [Laughter] but but um can you just tell me something nick i remember from the last interview we did um you said that when you joined the band you had a bad position in the band i mean a standing position i mean physically and then when you moved to principal horn you got to stand on the outside can you explain why that’s so much better well i used to um i joined this third horn and i i stood right behind the bass drum and um the bass drum is quite loud anyway but we had a bass

Drummer who was he’s a legend he was the loudest bass drummer i’ve ever heard in my life and you you come off parade sometimes with the ringing but as i sort of worked up in this section i eventually got principal horn and i i’ve made sure i’m stuck on the outside rank ever since so it’s it’s not such a problem how do your ears manage because you know it it’s incredibly loud and also um in in i’m watching watching you do your concerts you know you’re you’re on this you the president’s owner on this stage um in fact i’m terrified to actually show you show

You another one of this in case you get my my screenshot but i’ve got a lovely if you can see this it’s very loud where how you how you’re sitting all right wait wait for this is can you see this yes oh there we go know him ever heard of him [Music] woohoo [Applause] so explain what that was we know who it was but he’s not your regular conductor is he hillary no i should let doug take this because this happened on tour this was the year that i was not on tour my husband’s also in the band so we we alternate tours so it

Was my my year to be home uh yeah i mean we have a we have this wonderful thing that started to happen uh recently i’m not sure if it’s an official thing or if it just kind of works out this way but toward the end of our tours we have some some sort of like a a gala concert and that was our our gala concert and it was it was at uh the royce hall at uh ucla and uh let’s see we had been on tour for about three weeks at that time and so we we took kind of the three programs that we had

Been rotating throughout the tour and made this big monster program and we were able to we were able to play with uh john williams which was amazing we got to perform with uh uh tom hooton the principal trumpet he used to be in our band um now playing in los angeles uh and his his wife played also she was also in the band and another member of the los angeles philharmonic jeff strong so they did a buglers holiday which was fun and uh let’s see i think i’m forgetting something but there was there was a lot of really wonderful things on that concert but the

Audience didn’t know john williams was going to come out and conduct it was a complete surprise to everyone so that was really cool i mean that was his that was his concert overture that he wrote like a long long time ago um but you sit so close to each other and and it’s i mean we sit we sit near the percussion as well we don’t have shields but we have enough room in the philharmonie you guys are really close to claire how do you protect you all do you play with the earplugs or i mean those shields really don’t help very much do they no

And our base from bonus are very loud um when i’m sitting on the concert stage i tend to play without earplugs and then i kind of make up for it by putting earplugs in for every ceremony i it’s really hard for me to play without earplugs so i like to be in my prime without them when i’m on the stage and then yeah when i’m doing any sort of ceremony i put them in and that’s when i protect my hearing the most by the way tim is watching he’s been putting up some links for us so thank you for that um yeah i mean marching

Is really really um doing concerts concert concerts um band concerts are just a lot louder than symphony orchestra that’s just just just how it is there’s a lot of um um how do you keep your chops in shape this is a this is a big thing i mean anyone is welcome to take this um all of you i mean you you have to play a lot of offbeats and a lot of really loud stuff but every as we heard in your in your horn ensemble concerts a lot of high stuff as well i think it’s kind of built into the job because we’re constantly rotating

Parts that some weeks are playing fourth horn for a really major concert and some you know weeks you’re playing assistant and you’re playing really touchy things but we’re constantly rotating we’re constantly playing with different people so we kind of have to adapt and there’s really no other option than being able to play the full range of the horn um and at really any given moment sometimes without warming up if we’re at the white house um i think it’s just constantly trying just being able to play the full range of the horn you can’t help at the white house you’re not allowed to play beforehand you

Just have to just perform it depends i mean when we have guests and they’re there we can’t just be like kind of noodling around in their face so sometimes we just have to sit there for a really long time and then you know play a john williams suite or something like that and i was gonna i was gonna mention that i think just having a healthy routine on the outside of all those jobs is going to be your best bet for staying in shape and that’s true for for any professional musician i think um but just you know if you play assistant like claire said

It’s high and touchy then maybe you want to warm down at the end of the day and just make sure you’re touching the other fundamentals of the horn as well um taking a day off once in a while i know some people hate that but i i really advocate for that not all the time don’t take a week off and then but take a day off and and rest you know and then the other thing is um just being sure not to play with too much pressure you know i i think that that’s something that all professional hornets sort of have to learn uh as

Their career goes on and it’s just being aware of of those tendencies what leads to an injury uh pushing it in not using your air correctly so anyway i could go on and on about that that’s a whole other topic but i think it’s just becoming a very efficient player and hillary and doug obviously is our as our main principal players know the most about that you find especially after the marching you have to repair because i had this one experience marching and playing and i was it was terrible i felt like i’d bashed my face and it was literally only five three minutes wasn’t

It nick had written a piece especially and uh and but you do it all the time i mean what do you do nick when you’ve been marching around and falling in potholes and slipped in horse whatever and yeah there’s so not much you can do when i first started marching i noticed it it it was absolutely devastating on the lips and i i found i did about three hours practice doing low stuff and flexibilities until it calmed down but because we we’re not playing on the marks so often it’s there’s nothing we can really do um i tend to do as much as i can

So to maintain the flexibility because we we get hit with all sorts of we’re doing brass quintets 10-piece brass and we play in the orchestra quite a bit and lots of recordings and jobs tend to come in at the last minute so yesterday we were recording a win-win next wednesday and it’s been to see difficult parts so you were recording in mozart horn concerto yesterday if i may just add that into the chat yeah but it was uh that was um i’m just back to leave and i had three weeks to prepare is that while marching it sounded like a matching way i played it

[Laughter] the mouthpiece question has come we always have a mouse beef question it wouldn’t be a horn hangout with that without a mouthpiece question ida wants to know do we use it do you we i’m not marching anymore um do you use a different mouthpiece when you were marching that when you play a concert is there are there any advantages no chris you’re shaking your head i used to i found it was harder and it affected me so i try to use the same except when it’s extremely extremely cold and then i switch to a plastic rim um because because when it’s like 17 degrees

Um a coal a metal mouthpiece feels terrible so plastic feels warmer um the question also has come that i really want to know as well from um trejanus in sweden and he wants to know what happens how do you empty out water while you’re on a march i guess you just don’t you do but it’s it’s a bit of a mix of luck and uh it’s trying to get that third e-flat valve back in afterwards is a nightmare it usually tends to pull in the one place i think you all kind of get to know your own instrument and where it tends to pull um

But no you will see clips of us kind of marching down the mouth spinning instruments around in between marches and so on that was part of the show yeah it’s close we’ve had all sorts so you’ve luckily i’ve not dropped a slide yet um we’ve had a trombonist in front of me drop a sled which has been collected by someone behind me and passed back forward on the march so yeah it’s kind of a nightmare scenario but um when needs must you’ve just got to do it i suppose anyone have to play horn on horseback no questions chris sorry nick chris they’re playing one okay

On the horses so we’ll play the french all the marching on foot let me get my horse it’s 10 a horn i can’t even imagine um can i uh tenderhorns are played on horseback yep that’s someone uh thomas pinnell knew the answer to that so that’s really great um mick you mick you were just there where did he go he’s gone he he had a picture he’s disappeared he’s left us oh well where is he there he is he’s back i saw a picture of him in his early music band do you have um early music stuff going on in the president’s own because the

The um the coal stream guards have an absolutely brilliant you play serpents and and dress up in in original costume you don’t have it there do you nick oh excellent that’s perhaps that looks um the same except i got to tell everyone they wear white tights light white tights i may add um yeah and you play you play uh really original music written for the band yes we play a lot of um original pieces by mozart and hayden beethoven beethoven wrote some cracking marches for um in the eighth century band and um we play on the natural horns which are actually they’re quite good for

Playing on the march i’ve done this because i said long term but um half stopping just doesn’t work on the march it has to be absolutely rammed in or open you just had a picture of you in the band i saw it well how did you manage to how did you put that up yeah did you see it do you not did you know how you did it or was just by chance no i just had to change from uh ipad to iphone okay well it was a shame because i’m sorry you had they because they come in i saw one of the concerts at

The chapel and they come in and they you know like they say hello to each other and then there’s it’s are there any videos of that i want to i have to see that um some clever person has suggested the title for a new cd mozart e-marching i don’t think we’ll be going there um yeah how often does the repertoire change us francis that’s a that’s a good question do you do you you get the repertoire thrown at you um what what happens how does that work in the president’s own band does it change like literally every week you’re playing something different how how much

Notice do you get as to what you have to play it really depends on the week when we do white house events we have a folder about this thick that’s several inches thick of just standard repertoire and they just call out a list the last one i was on me played for three hours and they just called the list out of things for us to play and the president was an hour late so we just continued to um to play to fill up the space so that’s typically what we do at the white house is we have folders for the orchestra that are very thick

That have very standard things that are all site readable we don’t typically rehearse for that we just we just play and for concert bands for our concerts we have a season brochure and that’s sort of decided ahead of time and then if you happen to get on that concert then you’ll know what it is but white house events it’s just kind of so so you’ll play we have um i i’m sorry i would add we we do have a really wonderful library fully staffed and their full-time job is to prepare all the folders and uh they’re really on top of it so so we’ll we’ll

Typically get those programs two or three months in advance and uh and our section leader jennifer she’s probably watching too hi jen uh she uh she’ll task us for you know months at a time so usually we have several weeks notice that we can go down to the library and grab the folder and practice i mean every once in a while there might be a you know like a last second event that gets added you know like a bill signing or something um but even for those we know it’s probably going to be the standby book stuff so we don’t we don’t get completely surprised

A lot of the time yeah but if you’re playing for the president and he’s an hour late and you have this huge folder and it’s not in order or do people call out what you’ve got what you just said okay number 43 and everybody you know is trying to turn the page um and you’ve you’ve got the folder on those what are they called a little the little mini music stands what are they called oh no we have a full music stand these are sit down jobs oh okay okay they’re not the marching nick what’s the name of that thing again a liar liar that’s

It i’m i’m such a such a civilian i’m sorry um the liars scratch your horns don’t they yeah they can do it do they scratch your horn are they built on or did you have an extra how does that work uh i’ve got again and i’ll show you quickly yeah it’s great and it’s getting up to time to for your surprise i think kavel um yeah he’s got a really good surprise to play us out with so um stick around um if you’re watching us on facebook and you have some last minute questions hop over to the website and and type them in the chat

If any of you watching on the website have some last minute questions or any comments or any greetings for anybody write them all in because all my guests will will get to see the chat and and we’d love to know where you’re watching from um and uh yeah and thank you for all the links and thank you for all the it’s yeah all the questions have been really fantastic okay oh good show us that yeah so it’s like a liar how does it stick onto your horn yeah so it’s it’s got like a little liar holder and it’s got a screw right here i don’t

Know if you can see that right here and then uh you sort of screw it in and make sure you do it really tight or else you will lose the screw and then it’s going to be really really difficult to keep it steady um and but if you’re marching you only have a few pieces then they’re shrunk right yes they are yeah and um they’re sort of like a5 sorry guys this is this is you know all this but all of us watching don’t so this is what we want to know yeah so 35 okay so if i copy or something like that oh excellent

It sits on here yeah so this is the household divisions backing card yeah so it’s like this basically that’s small so you really do not see when you’re about to step in something the horse is left behind no you don’t i cannot believe you guys marched with paxman’s and alexander’s i can’t imagine marching with the big double i’m very impressed tim has written in saying he’s the last one that marches with a double in your band yes what’s the hardest thing about marching with a horn mick what would you say um just keeping it on your face really this is the hardest thing yeah it’s

Difficult but you learn to adapt and yeah keep it on there it’s it’s okay right we’re playing we’re playing offbeats most of the time anyway so claire what would you say yeah i would say just keeping it on your face as well some of the more important things about music kind of go out the window for a little bit like intonation and you’re just really trying to hit the notes though yeah that is true everything doesn’t help when you’re playing low notes as well oh no it looks horrible it’s a it’s in in a way it’s very good it’s a very humbling experience and we

Learned not to we learn not to speak ill of french horn players from other marching units also because we know exactly how hard it is for them to so well if this i promised i promised some people i would show this because they hadn’t seen it if you would allow me to show our our this is why i love the cold stream guards band so much because they let me do this may i show you this um maybe i don’t know if you’ve even seen it um where is it it’s here i hope the right is this come up right okay it’s only it’s literally

One minute long the band of the cold stream guards have challenged me to play the horn and march and wear a bare skin hat no idea if i can but i’m going to have a go nick made this arrangement especially for the day what there’s something hanging in my face look at that strap oh god the tourists thought what on earth is going on that’s good you can’t hear what i was playing i turned the mic down you did not want to hear that [Laughter] oh sorry sorry ah there she goes again oh i tell you this is so stressful it was quite a moment

But nick thank you so much nick and mick thank you so much for letting me do that it was uh i come to have total respect for what you do it was impossible it was i don’t know how it just does this and the low notes how on earth also nightmare low notes for nightmare i am an aura of anyone who plays full forward on the march thanks nick thank you mature wants to know do you know by heart all the national anthems of the world the main countries no you know your own yes a second part at least yeah that’s fantastic so can i

Ask you um to finish off with we’ve been going on i’ve got some i’ve still got i’ve got some other videos i think we’ll leave that the videos are just i’ll put all the links to the videos up when we when we um i’ve got the great video of you playing in ghent chris for you finally we’d finally get to see you playing um in ghent uh with the with the quartet and i’ve also got um uh your band playing uh vriency overture which i absolutely loved that was so impressive um i’ve been through so many of your wonderful videos today i will put up

The links to all of those but can you can each one of you give me a highlight an absolute highlight of an event um because for us as you know normal people we just see it looks very glamorous you know playing for the queen playing for all these dignitaries in the white house um what are what have been your highlights i mean can we start nick can we start with you and it’s probably the rugby i seem to remember or was that mick that was that was me that was you tell us nick so the sporting events apart from all the you know the change

The guards and the queen’s birthday parades the highlights for me are definitely playing the anthem at twickenham for the 2006 six nations the noise like tears pouring down the face like playing the national anthem yeah that’s quite something nick how about you i think it has to be the cenotaph parade it’s so emotional and the music is incredible as well and uh it’s it’s a big favorite a lot of people in the marching bands but other than the ceremonies but the the horn ensemble concerts we’ve done we’ve done quite a lot of um recitals and we’ve aimed to get every home player in the girls

Division who’s available to join in two years ago we had 24 and um petrol gets together from bonds and we have a lot and it seems great i think we have a lovely video of that um as well of the the one on the chapel steps that was a wonderful a wonderful moment the fanfare that all of you played i think there were 24 of you there um hillary what about you um there’s several white house events that stand out um like there’s there’s a several awards that are given out in our country like the um the medal of arts and i we typically find

Out who the nominees are and then we prepare special arrangements for for each guest so that there’s something from their past musically for them to remember and i remember being at one event where meryl streep was being honored and she was there quite early and there was really nobody else in sort of the the lobby where we were so we started playing a medley of music from all of her past movies and she stopped and stood in front of us and you sort of watched i mean she’s such an incredible actress and has such an open face and you watched her relive her entire life

As we were playing it because it was about a 10 minute medley of like three i think it was sophie’s choice and out of africa and all those lovely movies and to watch her sort of relive her experiences through music as i was you know 20 feet away from her was really impressive and things like that happened a lot but that one really stood out and then she came over and chatted with us and that was really interesting chris how about you um for me it’s definitely playing on stage at the albert hall for the um festival of remembrance in november um sat there with

All of the lighting and so on you’ve got the queen sat just there watching um and it’s going out live on bbc it’s this fantastic uh celebrities and all sorts coming and singing and performing it’s a really great experience concerts remember them with audio hey yeah um cecilia what about you uh we did a concert several years ago where we we didn’t use all ten horn players but i think we used eight of us and it was a concert of all movie music new and old and our section gets along so unbelievably well i’m actually surprised we don’t get yelled at by the conductor more

For as much giggling that goes on in the back but we had a blast the entire week rehearsing this music and like on the concert the music was so fun that i know it’s not like a really high profile job but it was to make such great music with great people it’s just such a fun memory of of mine oh that sounds great um doug uh yeah yeah that that was a good one and you already showed a clip of one uh the the concert with john williams uh in la uh last year i believe it was we took a concert band to japan and

Did uh did a quick uh uh quick but challenging tour through that country uh kind of the centerpiece of that tour was uh the japan band clinic uh and hamamatsu was their 50th anniversary and uh the crowd was uh amazing and the band i mean it was intense like kind of learning on the fly how to how to travel through that country um all as a group you know uh just just kind of walking around trying to figure it out so it was uh we were we were uh it was one of those occasions where uh the stakes are high and you kind of have

To rise to it and uh it was i won’t forget that one and claire you’re you you haven’t been in the band for that long but i’m sure they’ve been highlights yeah for me it was actually the john williams concert in l.a um hearing everyone gasp when he walked out because they were just so surprised they didn’t know he was going to be here it was really cool i just had a hard time keeping myself together like any time he was on the podium i was like fighting back tears um and then i loved after the concert we took a picture with him as a

Horn section which is the cover for this and he whispered to me i’m so sorry i couldn’t find the horn section because he went to qs and we sit in a rather unusual position i had to look and look for you as well yeah um and it was just kind of like a great moment i mean we like idolize these people but like every musician we idolize as a real human and it was just a really humbling experience for me he’s he’s so i had the same thing i jumped in with boston pops and to play under his baton it’s just something you know you

Can imagine how they maybe they felt like that when beta when they were playing beethoven five under beethoven i don’t know but i was in tears too kavel you have something very special to play us out with today um what what has been your highlights um enjoy doing the most well i’ve only been in the band um ten months um and i’ve i’ve done the leica meek i’ve played at a twitter number which is i’ve never done that in my music you better explain twickenham i’m not sure if it’s the it’s the home of england rugby um um and that’s the um yeah rugby union

And the right is not american football well the nfl that’s the english version it’s a lot more brutal yeah yeah so for me that was the highlight being in the band um doing that and um also doing the god of honor for the french president so i’ve never done one of those so it was quite nice to do that um that was nice for me yeah well if any of you watching um are considering uh a career in the military um hillary how do people do they go onto the website there’s all the ins there’s all the information there yes our the president’s own website

Um we tend to post um when we have an opening right now we have a full section of 10 but if someone were to leave or retire we would post that job and you would audition just like any other just like any other orchestra but an american citizen only yes and um all the whole household divisions i think if you go and you google british army musician you get all the information about about is that right um or is there a better way to for people to find information i major holiday still in the chat so i’m sure he’ll put a put a link in

There um so um yeah so it seems to be like an amazing job it’s just if it wasn’t for the marching i’d apply myself cabell you are yes you’re very versatile and you’ve brought us you you’ve brought us a little something from light entertainment to say goodbye with yes um so i’m not only a horned player but i’m i’m also a steel drummer because i originate from the lovely caribbean island of saint lucia and if you’ve never seen one before there it is steel drum looks like one of those old hair dryers yeah um and i’m gonna attempt something um different tonight i’m actually never

Done this before but i’m gonna attempt to play the introduction to my um of of my regimental match milanolo it’s never never been done before so hopefully i do it justice uh nick i do apologize i hope i don’t get in trouble for it but i’m gonna give this a go this is out of my comfort zone um yeah so i’m gonna try this great in the right key as well [Music] that’s it that’s it yeah oh bravo it sounded like a mobile phone [Laughter] okay um well we’re we’re we’re gonna say goodbye for now but um but there’s always an infamous after show horn

Hangouts party which uh we turn the live streaming button off for so we might persuade kavel to play play some more for us oh yes [Laughter] thank you so much everyone for joining us online really it’s it’s it’s it’s truly ambling where you’re all where you’re watching from it’s just fantastic um and yeah thanks for writing in thanks for letting us know where you’ve been watching from all of you on facebook thanks for joining us there’s really a lot and and and to you wonderful people um it’s great to to to feel connected in this in these weird times you know washington london berlin it’s

Uh yeah it’s really great so thank you and hillary hillary and nick you two have been amazing because you you helped me set this all up i could not have done it hillary got this facebook messenger message from this crazy horn player saying your horn section would be interested in doing a horn hangout so thank you so much and nick as well you have to go i mean it’s not not easy in in the armies to to to allow a live stream like this so i um it’s fantastic that we could do it and it’s just a great resource for all of us so thank

You but we have to take a photo that’s we still need we still need the obligatory horn hangout selfie i i brought someone with me i think actually i might i might i might put him that that’s mine there he is yeah i should bring this that’s mine here’s a picture of souza oh oh nice yes oh he’s going out of focus there he is ah there he is ah come here how do you do that he’s not doing anything okay all right well get that he’s not staying he’s gonna have to be my horn okay everybody um jakob you’re sitting there you’re doing a

Couple of screenshots we can all of you take some screenshots for us and put yourselves in them if you can that would be amazing okay ready for this um how did that tune go okay one two three household division uh president’s own i can hear some screenshots going on marine united states man yeah yeah great thank you you guys thank you so much all of you guys and girls um thank you for joining us and we’ll see you next week we have a very exciting hangout once again on the 1st of october we have and you’ll be amazed when you hear who the guests are

Because they do not play the horn they are the melodica men now do you know the melodica men they are coolest people on this planet and if you don’t know them go and google them because they will be the guests next week on the horn hangouts because they use air um uh and tristan’s a trumpet player anyway so and and joe used to play the bass trombone so that’s all completely kosher but they built up this incredible um brand playing melodicas and uh it’s uh yeah have any of you have you seen him have a new right of spring rhapsody in blue okay chris that’s

Your oh no i have no i haven’t yeah i recognize it now they uh they’ve done super mario they’ve done um yeah 1812 overture uh yeah so they’re the next ones so i hope to see you all back here first of october and to all all of you wonderful military horns thank you very much and i’ll see you see you soon don’t go away but see you soon bye everybody thanks for joining us bye

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