[Magdalen] All souls/All Saints...

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 00:51:08 UTC 2016


Ba-doop-ba-dooo     Ba-doop-ba-dooo   Ba-doop-ba-doo  Dooo Repeat

That's what Reveille starts like.  :-)

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/24/2016 8:39 PM, P. Dan Brittain wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:02 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Not First Call?  First Call is recognized by most people as the call that
>> announces the horse race is soon to begin.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> First_call <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_call>
>>
>>>>> I'm no musician but I think in the UK it's Last Post followed by
>> Reveille.
>>
>> ​In 1977, the band I was accompanying​
> ​(33rd Army Band, the USAREUR headquarters band) to the Nato band Fest​ in
> Mons, Belgium was asked to play a memorial in Roulx for the last soldier
> killed in WWI,  a Canadian. We were only asked to do the Last Post, and I
> helped with the wreath. I think I have heard of the custom of Reveille
> after Last Post, but am not familiar with the use in this case. Don't even
> know if their Reveille is the same as the one we use.
>
>
>



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