Robert Goute was a former drum major of the batterie-fanfare of the Paris Air Force. At the head of the music commission of the French Sports and Cultural Federation until 1979, founding member of the French Confederation of Drum Bands in 1980 and finally president of the International Federation of the French Drum School in 1990, he is at the origin of the modern drum band and the revival of the French drum in the associative world.
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