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officer and calm returns. The next day the Regiment enters London to
cheering crowds and the Regiment for the first time, but not the last, takes up
residence in and around St James's Palace.
Ouintet in Eb Maio
Fijzaro
The original band of the Regiment dates back to before 1760.2
The band numbered between five and eight and was hired on a monthly basis
to provide music for the Changing of the Guard from Horse Guards to St
James's Palace.
Bands also started to play in the Royal Parks every afternoon in the 1770's.
Music played was mainly marches and minuet and trio's, however, JC Bach
was writing for the Kings Guard band military pieces such as his Quintet No2
in Eb Major, which was never published, hear is the Allegro.
" Around 1783 the officer's of the Regiment wanted to hire the Regimental band
to accompany them to an aquatic event in Greenwich, however the musicians
declined, as they were all professional musicians working at Covent Guard
and Haymarket theatre.
" Lord Cathcart was not happy and asked the Colonel of the Regiment, The
Duke of York, who agreed and appointed Christopher Eley to form a band and
take them to London to become the Coldstream Guards Band. 3
" The civilian band found put about this from the Regimental instrument maker
who had been tasked to provide the new band with instruments and
1 Second
to None. (Trowbridge, Wilts: Redwood Books Ltd, 2000)
2 Regimental archive documentation. Coldstream Guards, Regimental Headquarters.
3 W. T. Parke, Musical Memoirs: An Account of the General State ofMusic in Englandfrom the First
Commemoration ofHandel, in 1784, to theyear 1830, Two Volumes in One. (London: Colburn and
Bentley, 1830), 2ý239-242.