The corps is organized into two groups: the wind section and the drum section.
The wind section is consists of three groups, where two of them plays the fife and simplified bugle marches and signals. The third group is playing only the bugle and are concentrating on more advanced bugle marches.
The fife is a smaller flute that sounds similar to the piccolo. It has seven holes and spans two and a half octaves. The severity is comparable to the recorder, except that it requires certain muscles located in the lips.
The bugle is a wind instrument without valves and flaps. It plays natural tones and can perform bugle marches and signals. The instrument was introduced in the army when the war strategys became more more scattered and the fifes could not be used anymore.
The drum section consists of the field drum group and the landsknecht drum group. The field drum gives the music dynamics and character while the landsknecht drums stands for the basic pulse and accentuations.
The field drum has been used by armies in all historical times. The modern snare drum has plastic drum heads, mechanical tensions and snare wires made out of metal. The field drum is considered so important to the regiment that they belong to the foremost traditional objects among other things, such as the regimental colours.
The landsknecht drum and bass drum stands for the basic pulse of the marches in order to make it as easy as possible for soldiers to march and keep time. Our specific landsknecht drum has its history and background from Landsknecht units during the 14th to 16th century.
The crescent is the regimental finest tradition object after the regimental colours. The crescent is a percussion instrument and is derived from the Turkish Janitschar music. The tradition of carrying a crescent was introduced at the Life Guards after Swedish king Carolus Rex’ campaign in the East. The instrument is still in many countries’ armed forces. In Sweden we call it ‘Muhammedsfana’ and in Germany they call it ‘Schellenbaum’.