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Slesvigske musikkorps (Schleswig Military band or SMuK, which means beautiful in Danish) is a
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NATO
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military
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Schleswig Foot Regiment
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.
The band is made up of 17 members. 1 conductor, 4 cornet players (one plays piccolo trumpet, Bb trumpet and Eb cornet; another sings and plays piano, another plays the flugelhorn too), 2 Bb trumpet and flugelhorn players, 2 French Horns, 2 euphoniums (one also plays trombone), 2 trombone players (not including the one just mentioned), 2 tubas (one also plays bass guitar), and 2 drummers.
The band started in 1778 serving Prince Frederick VI of Denmark in Hessens Hof at
Gottorp Castle
Gottorf Castle (german: Schloss Gottorf, da, Gottorp Slot, Low German: ''Gottorp'') is a castle and estate in the city of Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important secular buildings in Schleswig-Holstein, and ha ...
. After the war in 1864, the
Second Schleswig War
The Second Schleswig War ( da, Krigen i 1864; german: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. T ...
, they played for several years for
Kronborg Castle
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, which had become a military installation. After the reunification, they were garrisoned in