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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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1PREFACE.
3WHEN the Royal Military Exhibition of last year was first promoted, I was requested by those in authority to take entire charge of the musical arrangements, and to provide for the performance of varied programmes of popular music, in the grounds of the Exhibition, during the season. As this seemed to me to offer an opportunity, probably unique, for enabling the public to judge of the capabilities of our best military bands, I thought that by introducing music of a higher class into the programmes, and by arranging for a constant succession of different military bands, brought from all parts of the United Kingdom, instead of employing some half dozen bands only, amusement for the frequenters of the Exhibition would be more amply provided for. And, in addition to this, musical critics would have the opportunity of judging of the present state of military music generally, of the requirements of a military bandmaster and of a military musician, and also of the relative merits and demerits of our present system. Accordingly, I suggested this plan, which met with the entire approval of H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, who issued the necessary orders to enable me to carry it out. The Exhibition remained open some five months. During these five months no less than 74 different military bands of all branches of the Service were engaged, most of these remaining in London for a week. By these means it has been possible to form a very fair idea as to the general state of military music in this country, and to gain a large amount of material knowledge as to the present system, which could not have been otherwise obtained.
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