Last Post Bugle Call Rememberance Sunday

Principle RMLI Bugler Col Sgt Gillis-Coates plays Last Post at rememberance service at the War Memorial Hospital in Gosport 2007. He is one of only 2 remaining buglers originaly from the Royal Marines Light Infantry Cadet Marching Band who where disbanded in 2005. Both he and Col Sgt Niel Anstee are the official civic Buglers for the borough of Gosport. Col Sgt Anstee plays for the service at Lee-On-The Solent each year and they both play for the Memorial Service held at Anns Hill Cemetary every year in June.

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• rememberance
• reveille
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• marines

[mocoates]

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments, I must admit on the day, we are always treated like royalty at these ceremonies. Which i always feel is a bit unfair as we are just providing the backing music to the sombre bit, it's the people out there in action that need the pat on the back. We never get paid and we never ask for payment on this day... But we do get plenty of Rum ;) which is nice!...Having said that, your on your own most of the time, and if you screw it up, it's never forgotten

[Kay82Schmidt]

His hand doesn't appear to move. Surely he's not doing it all with his lips and mouth?! Very touching every time i hear this.

[mocoates]

@Kay82Schmidt Hi, I use a no pressure method, I have been playing for nearly 40 years now, my Embouchure is quite developed, and as seale1234 says above, the bugle isn't chromatic it has no valves so you won't see any fingers moving, although I can get it to play chromatically with my lips only

[steglynn]

I'd like to get my hands on the 10 who disliked this.

[mocoates]

@steglynn forgive them for they know not what they do, some people won't / can't/ will never understand. But thats ok, they probably have strengths in other areas

[harmageden]

..It sounds like battlefire in the background ....

[mocoates]

@harmageden its the wind making the rope on the flag pole slap against it

[TheDrummerboi94]

Noone bugles like the Brits ! Done This Yesterday and Saturday Hundreds of people watching, under spotlights literally sweating from a Band Performance only minutes before ... the last post is easy to start the difficulty is Reveille after 2 minutes, cold metal on the lips, straining for the second to top note, not easy , no matter how long you do it for

[charlesfisher757]

this is one very skilled bugler indeed!

[seale1234]

@Kay82Schmidt my best buddy was born in Ontario and served w/the US 101st in the '60's. His Dad had a lumber yard in Indianapolis...I enlisted in the Navy two years after Jim...

[Kay82Schmidt]

@seale1234

Thanks. I forgot the difference between instruments. I'm still impressed, too.

[iJamesPayton]

@mocoates hahahaha

[AnthonyMorrisonn]

It's amazing that in the 1 minute or so of the "Last Post" tune that it can tell a story of so many years of war.

[dodgeydave68]

how can anyone dislike such a tune !! it gives respect to everyone that has died so everyone can be free !!!!!!!!!!!!

[seale1234]

no valves...he's playing the bugle...