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Since the hornlines no longer play bugles, wouldn't it make more sense to call it Drum and Brass Corps now? I think this is a more accurate description of what the activity has become. (Unless you prefer to use "bugle" in a nonliteral sense.)

And the horn lines are no longer made up of sopranos and contras. They're called trumpets and tubas. As much as it hurts to say it -- that's what they are.

In this sense -- in my opinion -- the activity changed in 2000.

Of course, this doesn't apply to the DCA groups that actually use bugles. Those are Drum and Bugle Corps.

Anyone else see it the same way? (Puts on flame suit...)

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It would certainly be a better name than the abbreviated "drum corps."

I can't tell you how many times I've been asked if i play drums. so frustrating

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It stopped being a real drum and bugle corps over 100 years ago.

Not technically. The name applies, in my opinion, if the group is playing drums and bugles. (I think bugles can have valves. Opinions will vary here, I'm sure.)

Than maybe it all should be called Drum and Brass Corps?

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Not technically. The name applies, in my opinion, if the group is playing drums and bugles. (I think bugles can have valves. Opinions will vary here, I'm sure.)

Than maybe it all should be called Drum and Brass Corps?

Many people in the 50s (much less 100 years ago) wouldn't agree that the G horns with 3 valves are actually bugles.

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Many people in the 50s (much less 100 years ago) wouldn't agree that the G horns with 3 valves are actually bugles.

True. So maybe this discussion is long overdue?

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"Bugle" has just been a name reflecting tradition more than anything pretty much since the advent of competitive corps; the key has nothing to do with the instruments being bugles or not. Having said that, I am 100% in favor of retaining that name and the related nomenclature (i.e., soprano, contra, etc.) for the sake of said tradition.

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True. So maybe this discussion is long overdue?

It's not overdue. It's been discussed in multiple threads in the past.

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