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ARCHIVE PROGRAMMES

The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Programme 1989
"40th Year"

Fanfare and Voice of the Castle

"La Reine Marie Stuart"
Composed by Major CRC Garrity RA, Senior Director of Music Royal Artillery and the Tattoo's Director of Music
 

The Massed Pipes and Drums

1st Bn Scots Guards
1st Bn The Royal Highland Fusiliers
(Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
1st Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders
RAF Pipe Bands (Kinloss, Leuchars and Lossiemouth)
Canadian Cadet Pipes and Drums
Tasmania Police Pipe Band
 

Royal Artillery Stakes

A get-in-to-action competition with the Light Gun, featuring gun crews from 16 Air Defence Regiment RA, 19 Field Regiment RA, and 40 Field Regiment RA, introduced and controlled by a Forward Observation Party from 7 Commando Battery RA
 

The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery

A display featuring the Band of the Regiment and its Gymnastic Display Team
 

Forty Years On

The Scots Guards, Royal Highland Fusiliers and Gordon Highlanders each provide an Argyll Broadswords to celebrate the Tattoo's fortieth anniversary
 

"The Strongest Man in the World"

A brief but concentrated exhibition of strength by Dave Gauder, who claims to be "The Strongest Man in the World". Believed to be the only man with six entries for strength in the Guiness Book of Records, he pulls a tracked Rapier missile, part of the fire power of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
 

Together

The massed pipes and drums and the massed military bands played a combined programme
 

Three Hundred Years

A display commemorating the 300th anniversary of the King's Own Scottish Borderers
 

Finale

Entry of Cast
General Salute
Background to a Cameronian Conventicle
Hymn
Last Post
Lone Piper
Final Voice of the Castle
General Salute
National Anthem
The Maroon and march off

Happy we've been a' the gither
The Royal Artillery General Salute
 
Onward Christian Soldiers
 
Mull of the Mountains
 
 
The Queen
Scotland the Brave
Auld Lang Syne
The Black Bear

The 1989 Tattoo Finale
Buy a photo of the 1989 finale from the Online Tattoo Shop

Also available from the Online Tattoo Shop:

•   1989 Commemorative LP - Music from the Tattoo's Fortieth Year, including performances to commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. Only £10.00
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