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John Schmitt

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  1. This is using the rounded figures on the front score page. the ones on the recaps are a little different but not enough to move anybody.
  2. We put hair ties on the 3rd valve slides. They click when they snap back. Not sure what the big horns do.
  3. I remember Glassmen's contras dragging a pile of K90s around as late as 2001. I know we had exactly as many 3 valve sopranos as we had people in 2001, so if a horn was in the shop somebody got to play the Olds Ultratone. I'm pretty sure I played a single piston alto at drill camp in 00 or 01.
  4. Does anybody remember the "one trigger, one event" thing from WGI eleventy billion years ago? That's kind of where I am with this. Otherwise, why not prerecord soloists, even sequence the entire show with a click and place a speaker on the back hash. If some things are ok and some are not I think this point is a logical dividing line.
  5. Yeah, I guess that's what I was thinking. (1+2)/2 same as 1/2+2/2. I used to be able to count and add and stuff. This is why I lurk. First post in a few years with 2 posts to fix it.
  6. Yeah, you're right. Not sure what I was thinking there.
  7. GE: scores are added together for a possible total of 40. When a double panel is used the averages of each pair are added together. Visual: proficiency, analysis, and guard are added then halved for a possible total of 30. Music: brass, analysis, and percussion are added together and halved for a possible total of 30. When two drum judges are used their average is used as a single perc score. GE + Visual + Music = Total 40 + 30 + 30 = 100 It looks to me like the smaller panels early season tabulate by adding whatever they have in each caption together then using an appropriate multiplier to get the same ge, vis, mus weighting. 20+20 = 40 x .75 to get 30 with two visual judges, for example. Could be wrong on that, I haven't retabulated a lot of early season recaps.
  8. From what I understand, it's just too expensive for a corps to own, operate and maintain their own mini fleet of buses. Particularly since they sit nine months out of the year. It's a lot easier and cheaper to lease them for a few hundred grand a summer. It's likely more legal as well with professional drivers who know and follow all the dot rules. 2001 bluecoats met our old 1975ish MCI Crusader #723 (the one that hit the bridge in CT) in the lot belonging to our leasing company at the time. It was a very surreal experience at 2 AM a couple months into tour.
  9. fwiw, I remember hearing something about how the patch was created from a sample of the corps singing. Could be wrong of course. I personally liked it. edit: I edit all my posts. Probably put the groceries away and go right back to the store for the same reason.
  10. I once had a fairly ridiculous and inappropriate list of these.. but boston area is what I remember. @ boywonder: a boy scout 18 or over who is still participating in boy scouts is in their explorer program. Since they started as a troop's drum and bugle corps and a good bit of them are over 18, it makes sense. Edit: oldsnare beat me to it. Maybe for a bit of nostalgia to go with the short sleeved uniforms?
  11. The Kanstul Coliseum model was kind of an attempt at that. The bell flare is similar to a soprano, to the point where harmon mutes bounce right off. In the version the Bluecoats purchased in 2002 the mouthpiece receiver was from a powerbore soprano. .470 bore, very open horn. Pedal C is a legitimate note on these things. The prototype had "KSB103" stamped on it incidentally. Kanstul Soprano Bugle 103. The powerbore G sop was KSB102.
  12. There are a lot of reasons a corps could score at a particular level. It comes down to how the sub- captions come out relative to another. High numbers in things like GE Mus Perf or Vis Perf Excl without the corresponding rep and vocab scores in june would tell me the show's in danger of peaking early for example.
  13. had some extra gasoline lying around and this thread caught my attention... I think it really comes down to three problems: 1. It's hard to hold on to alternates. 2. It's hard to know which spot you'll need the alternate in on August 12th. 3. You can't teach an alternate an August- clean drum corps show in two days. I've been seeing numbers around 138 to 149 being called proof that 150 is unattainable. I think it actually shows us that 135 was attainable all along. I bet if we raise the limit to 168 we'll get 150+ healthy finals night in a lot of corps. The three problems I mentioned above are the reasons any size limit can be tough to attain and maintain. Make it 100. You'll have groups with 97 on finals night.
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