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Polizeimusik Basel (Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland)

images located by Martin Karner

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The Polizeimusik Basel (website) was founded in 1909, it is the representative orchestra of the Cantonal Police of Basel-Stadt. It consists of about 40 musicians who don't have to be members of the police. The range of repertoire contains classical literature to original compositions for wind orchestra, big band arrangements and modern hits. Since 1970, the Polizeimusik Basel has also been active in the field of marching music formations. They had several appearances at home and abroad, e.g. at the Basel Tattoo, the Rose Parade in California (U.S.), the International Police Tattoo in Adelaide (Australia) and divers other police music festivals. One of the greatest events was the participation in the Steuben Parade in New York, followed by a concert at the UN headquarters. The orchestra performs both in a historical uniform, which is faithfully reproduced from an old police uniform from 1909, and in the official representation uniform of the Cantonal Police of Basel-Stadt.
The square flag was created in 2009 for the centenary, it emerged from a competition among the members. It shows the club logo (the black Basel staff covered with an organ pipe) on a white background and a blue-yellow colour ray growing from the bottom right, tapering upwards (The colours blue and yellow do not have an official meaning). At the hoist side is the vertical inscription "POLIZEIMUSIK BASEL", which can be read on the obverse and the reverse (see pictures). In this music video the flag can be seen during a concert alongside the Swiss national and the Basel-Stadt cantonal flag. This picture shows a variant of the logo on a drum, the organ pipe is white instead of black.
Martin Karner, 11 April 2023

See also: Marcia Vexillum – vexillology and military marches (by Lars C. Stolt, ICV 20, 2003 / For audio file and music sheets see here)