AN Army musician will be following in his father's footsteps when he takes part in a royal salute to celebrate the jubilee.
Forty-nine years ago, Corporal Richard Finch's father was a musician with the RAF band which played in The Mall in London on Coronation day.
He passed on his skills as a cornet player to his son, who started his musical career with the Salvation Army when he was seven.
On Monday, he will be showing how those skills have progressed, when he plays in the King's Division Waterloo Band at the royal salute in York. Earlier this year, as part of a brass quintet, he was one of the first British Army musicians to perform in Kazakhstan.
Now Cpl Finch's children are following the musical tradition, learning piano and cornet.
His son, Andrew, plays with the Bedale Junior Brass Band while daughter Stephanie is raising sponsorship to go on the International World Scout Jamboree in Thailand later this year.
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