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2 unusual facts about Patrick Gilmore


Alice Riley

At age 16 she saw her first play, Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser, performed by Gilmore’s Band at the local opera house, which excited her enormously.

Baton Baton Mein

# Na bole tum: Asha Bhosle & Amit Kumar - the tune of this song was lifted from the popular American Civil War marching song When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again composed by Patrick Gilmore


Double bell euphonium

The instrument was first popularized by euphonium virtuoso Harry Whittier with the famous Patrick Gilmore band starting in 1888; the John Philip Sousa band added the instrument the following year Bone Paull and Morris, p. 12, with other US brass bands following the example.


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