gkbrass

Drum corps is dead.....it died when dues for membership rose to over $2000 a season. It, by definition, died for horns when 3 valved horns were legalized in 1987. Since then drum corps have played instruments that could play a full chromatic scale, thus removing the "bugle" from drum and bugle corps. Yes, modern drum corps is marching band, and that open minded-ness is what will someday allow woodwinds on the field. I attended DCI semifinals this year, and I was outraged by the narration and the weak, pitiful sounds Bb hornlines produced. Im young, my first year in drum corps was the year Bb horns were legalized. But I beleive in 2 valvers and piston rotors, and all this whining to DCI wont fix anything. People who really CARE about drum corps should search out those old bugles, wipe the dust off of them, oil them up and play them again. There are THOUSANDS of old 2 valved and piston rotor bugles that have been abaondoned out there. The one and only way GEORGE HOPKINS will even notice how the traditionalists feel is if they show it to him by shearing chrome at him. Get your bugles out, get some groups together and organize something. If you have the time, why not organize a hornline to play parades or gigs? in other words...DO SOMETHING that will restore the activity, not point figers about how it all went wrong as the drum corps activity fades away.......

Where are all the old bugles anyway? I had tried for 3 years to create a old bugle corps, but my recruiting suffered badly and we gave it up. www.pacificlegend.8m.com .

I am looking for playable piston-rotor and 2 valved bugles for the possible creation of an old-style drum corps in Northern CA. Please contact me at gkbrass@gmail.com if you or anyone you may know of has any of these in storage, etc. Thank you very much.