They’re Smooth As Brass

Members of the Dubuque Colts bugle and drum corps began to sweat as they repeated a sequence over and over again Tuesday morning.

March sideways to the right, then left; turn around and swing forward in a final crescendo of sound.

When the call came to break for lunch, the brass instrument players wearily walked off the field, clutching their instruments in gloved hands.

"I am tired, I admit it," Ankeny resident and Saydel High School senior Joseph Farrell said.

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