BAND OF 1000.
WEMBLEY MUSIC TO BE ON A TREMENDOUS SCALE.
LONDON, March 20.—A massed band consisting of 100 pipers, 300 fifes-; and 600 other bandsmen will be among the records of Wembley Exhibition. Bandsmen will be drawn from almost every regiment- and the great band will play eight times between. May 24 and 31. The Wembley music is to be on a big scale throughout. The band of the West India Regiment, which is to perform twice daily from June 2 to July 12, will have come' all the- way to London for the exhibition. The Kneller Hall (Army School of Music) Band of 175 players will play every day from mid-July to early August. In six concerts to be given in the Stadium. 10,000 voices and 500 instruments will be heard together. Equally big musical effects are proposed at the military tattoos.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 9
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