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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Hutchinson Sky Ryders (1984) and Jackson Generals (since 2003)
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Jackson Generals, Hutchinson Sky Ryders, Concord Blue Devils, Madison Scouts, San Francisco Renegades, Hawthorne Caballeros
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1984 Garfield West Side Story, half-lit victory performance after retreat . . . better than the finals performance, which was legendary. Second choice would have to be the 1981 Madison Scouts at Whitewater.
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1981, 1983
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Yazoo City, Mississippi
  • Interests
    Reading:<br />I am an avid reader of almost anything, with an interest in classic literature (not French, mostly Russian and British) and a strong interest in history and archaeology.<br /><br />Television:<br />I love the History Channel! (I am a dork. What can I say?)<br /><br />Outdoors:<br />I live for taking the top down and the doors off of my Jeep and wheeling in the woods on a nice afternoon. I am not aggressive in this and very much do not like to rip up the ground with my tires. I like fishing, hiking and camping. I used to race my mountain bike in NORBA events. (I pretty much sucked at it, but enjoyed it anyway.)<br /><br />Beverages:<br />IBC Vanilla Cream Soda<br />Bombay Sapphire and Cinzano, up, very dry, twist<br />Bushmills Irish whiskey, neat<br />George Dickel White Label, on the rocks<br />Puntigamer bier, room temperature (of course!)<br /><br />(Puntigamer is brewed in Graz, Austria. I used to play in an orchestra over there in the summers, so I have knocked back many of these.)<br /><br />http://www.puntigamer.at/index2.php

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  1. Meinl-Weston 32 CC Tuba with Five Rotary Valves This Meinl-Weston 32 CC has a 1941 York Monster Eb bell on it. I really like the sound I get from it. As a 4/4 CC it works well in the orchestra and as a freelance tuba. A previous owner "reordered" the valves so that 5 is now at the bottom of the stack. The stack had been the normal 51234 but is now 12345. The 5th valve is a half step. Some of the other slide loops were completely rebuilt to accommodate their new location within the body wrap after 5th was relocated. They were all adjusted so that they fit and work properly, with 1 and 3 having been very well aligned and the rotor casings vented. Since 1 and 3 work like trombone sides for effortless movement, slide stops were added to prevent them from falling out, but a previous owner removed the stop rods. However, the posts are still there, making the addition of the rods a fairly inexpensive piece of cake for a good tech if the new owner decides that s/he wants them. The 1st valve linkage is a long, L-shaped brass rod with a small guide channel on the backside that does a very good job. The 5th linkage is one long, straight rod, connected to another long, straight rod. It also works very well. This tuba comes with a very decent black, cordura gig bag. No mouthpiece or hard case will be included in the sale. Tuba with black cordura gig bag: $2,500 __________________________________________________ LINKS TO MORE PHOTOS MW-32 - Rear MW-32 - Valve Section MW-32 - Bell Side MW-32 - 1941 York Bell Engraving MW-32 - Gig Bag 1 MW-32 - Gig Bag 2 __________________________________________________ FINE PRINT (please read carefully) 1. I do not ship tubas. You will have to drive halfway to meet me. We will have to discuss this, so after an email we can exchange phone numbers and talk about setting up a road trip. 2. At this price there will be no "trial period" for this tuba. A potential buyer will need a tuner and about thirty minutes to know whether they feel it is worth the price to them. I can bring another tuba and we can play some duets for you to see how well this tuba plays. 3. No payments. A Bank Check/Cashier's Check for the full amount is acceptable. 4. I do not haggle. The price is the price. 5. For the sake of clarity I can post additional photos if needed. Contact me by private email please. Thanks for your time! Wade Rackley
  2. Miraphone is SOLD! Ad edited to reflect this. MW/York bell is probably going to be kept and overhauled. Conn 2J CC four banger is still up for grabs and is a blast to play (no pun intended). It was not made by Conn but was stenciled for them by Olds, makers of the Ultratone contras. This is built like a tank and plays great!
  3. Thank you for the private responses. The Miraphone 184 is now on hold, purchase pending.
  4. How much for just one of the three-valve-converted Olds Ultratones?
  5. BUMP! Help a brother out and get him some cash SOON, folks!!!
  6. Hiya, Cam! Good luck. This is where I found mine and my K-90 as well. I have another (very excellent) K-90 being held for me until I can get my finances for it in order. This is a great source. Wade PS - Stop by my blog or email me again soon. And now it's time for the great big BUMP! BUMP!
  7. She is in the guard. That year a bunch of the guard played soprano at the end of the show.
  8. You missed the opening bracket in your first IMG tag. Fixed!
  9. I would concur with that evaluation of the Getzen's playing. And I just happen to have one for sale for $150 plus shipping. (groan … ) It has a usable case that needs some hardware and the horn has one large tubing joint that needs to be re-soldered. It is in very good condition overall and does play. It has the original gooseneck. Slides and valves work well. Horn is in Jackson, MS right now but will be moving (with all of us and all of our mountains of crap) in January to Yazoo City, MS. Again, these were NOT great playing horns when new. This one is a great example of this very mediocre bugle. But it does have a hard case, all of its parts do work, AND it does actually play (if you can call the pig-like grunts of a Getzen "Baby Contra" playing. Minor work will have it dent and leak free. If your friend knows how these horns play and STILL wants one then look no farther … PM me if he actually is foolishly interested one of these best-forgotten bugles. I would be happy to unload mine! ^0^
  10. This is one of my favorite photos so far, from this entire thread. It shows so vividly that drum corps is made up of individual kids when you disassemble the unit into its constituent parts. These are two ordinary kids who just loved drum corps (and happened to be members of an outstanding organization, too). This photo puts a very human, non-performing face on the performers. While members of the vaunted Blue Devils, they could also easily be kids from next door or your college roommates. And the great color really makes the 1981 – 1983 seasons seem so much less distant in time than the quarter century that has actually passed since we were all young and fit and invincible. Great photograph. I love candid, fully-uniformed, off-the-field shots like this. Thank you.
  11. In Sky Ryders the year before you got there we marched six K-40s and 12 K-50 mellophones. The flugels had simple parts and were where we stuck our weaker upper brass players (sometimes being woodwind players who could get a good sound and range but had so-so technique). The parts were on their own line and were either easy fill-in sustained stuff or supported sop 3 or mello 2. As the summer progressed I was told that this section's book was toughened up as they improved and gained range and technique. Our hornline marched: 24 K-20 sopranos in three parts with split leads 12 K-50 mellophones in two parts 6 K-40 flugelhorns 18 K-70 baritones in three parts 8 K-90 contrabasses We did not own French horns or euphoniums at that time, though photos show that this changed shortly thereafter. Also, we only had 66 horns and not the 68 as shown. I am not sure where the two holes were, but I think that they were a bari 3 and a sop 3 … but I don't really know.
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