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As with any major American holiday, if there’s a parade, there’s a good chance a drum corps is or was a part of it at some point. This is just as true for the New Year holiday, even though it’s pretty much the midpoint between the end of the previous season and the start of the next one. https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/31/drum-corps-ringing-in-the-new-year/

Decades ago, and before social media, etc., the word slowly got out that Joe Dowling was giving away most of the corps trophies and flags. The local Lower Mills, Hyde Park members got the good stuff, but ghost did get a small trophy and maybe a WO flag. The 5' trophy from one of the annual Fitchburg, MA contests was long gone.

From what I've heard, indeed it will be.

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In 1979, Tim Salzman and yours truly designed this horn. https://imgur.com/trAYe2Z SCV, 27th, Madison, BD and the San Jose Raiders all had a section of tromboniums. If you scored and played it like a trombone, it sounded like a trombone. If you played it like a baritone, it sounded like a constricted baritone. Hornlines were a lot smaller then and most arrangers simply wanted the darker bari sound, so these fell out of favor except for solos.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, Ebenezer.

That low C pedal note had my subwoofers woofin!

I recall a few trophies in the front section of Post (there was a unique smell of stale beer, cigarette smoke, & valve oil). There was smallish banquet room in rear where we practiced, & in back kitchen/mechanical room was pull down ladder to attic where drums, bugles, & guard equipment was stored. Idk where uniforms were kept; the uniform ladies would show up with them for fittings, & they would be on racks by the busses when it was time to go somewhere.

Of course, this was over 50 years ago but I saw all the old trophies and a uniform of the Skokie Indians displayed at the Skokie American Legion post on Lincoln Ave. There was even a picture of Frank Arsenault there.

After the corps opened their new HQ, ghost suggested they, if there was room, display uniforms, props, etc.. If not enough floor space, put them up on walls, or hang them from ceilings.

I just wish we could give it a rest on the glissandos.

I definitely would love to buy a traditional Boston uniform. Any year from 1956-2013. If only they had some for sale

Hard to say what might still be lurking in the attic of the former American Legion post that sponsored us…

Hahahah! We got this! It’ll be worth the wait!

Have you read any posts in this thread where he is being "championed"?

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