Played by The Band of His Majesty's Coldstream Guards
Conducted by Captain J. Causley Windram, Director of Music, Coldstream Guards

Before 1783 the Band of the Coldstream Guards consisted of civilians who were hired by the month and had only one military duty - to play the Guard from St. James's Parade to the Palace and back again.

But the soldiers were not satisfied with the arrangement ; and the officers requested the Duke of York, who was then Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment, to allow the formation of a permanent band. The Duke was in Hanover at the time and he at once sent twelve Hanoverian musicians to England.

In its long history, the band has grown, of course, both in size and musical proficiency. When it was twenty strong it played in Paris during the Allied occupation of 1815. It now numbers between sixty and seventy players, and has three distinct combinations-military band, string band, and dance orchestra. In 1938 it played at the World's Fair in New York, and it was the first British Army band to visit Canada.