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man, all i use is mr. clean and a garbage can full of luke warm water.

So i have just read all six pages, instead of working, oh well, catch up on stuff later in the day. Like everyone else here, i have played on a few different instrument brands. I would prefer to play a kanstul contra grande, i did in 2001 Sky, love the horn, but i won a championship playing a 4valve dynasty contra. To me, even though the Kanstul is easier to sound good on, design wise, it is bell heavy, and and a little awkward holding it sometimes. The dynasty, did not sound as godd as the kanstul, but at least for me, along with a g&w stainless steel mouthpiece, stayed in tune, fairly comfortable alsmot all of the time. Being a much more confortable horn, i could play better because i was not concentrating on other things. I blended very well with the rest of the hornline, a hornline with mixed instruments, dyansty and dynasty deg instruments. As everyone knows, the Sunrisers won Class A, and won High Horns, with mixed instruments. I think it all depends on the player and the instruction. It just helps if you are compatible with your equipment, my opinion.

Aaron, by boy, enjoy your time with FusionCore, congrats

That's funny

I don't know about you guys, besides being a competitive corps, i also perform with a mini corps and an alumni corps. For me, it's more drum corps in my life, and it's different drum corps. Different people, different music, different mindset. PLus it keeps me playing during the off season of the competitive season.

getting paid to march, new concept for me to explore, i have known some people to march in parade bands that were not part of a drum corps organization, and they were paid to do that, even some community bands that just happen to do parades sometimes pay their members/players. I guess it's different when the parent organization is a drum corps. Just use to paying the corps dues money, not the other way around.

That is awesome

Yeah, I cried after that show, this year, before going on the field for finals, i cried before going on, then again on retreat.

Tex, Thank you for being there, COngratulations.

Thank youy larry for getting me involved with the Sunriser Famliy

To all Past and Present Sunrisers, Thank you and Congratulations. The class A championship that has been won by the 2007 edition of the Sunrisers could not have done it without you. Let me explain why I feel this way. The journey, the quest for this championship did not start last fall in my opinion. It started over 5 years ago. With the corps being inactive for a couple of years, the members of the corps who helped bring the corps back started the Journey with the Sunriser MiniCorps. With out the peeople who were involved to make that happen, this past weekend would not have happened. The second place finish in 2003 in class A would not have been possible for those persons either. The continued growth of the Sunrisers over the past few years still originates from those few people. I want to thank them. For all members of the Sunrisersin the past five years, who may or may not be with the corps currently, Thank You. If it was not for your time spent with the corps, to help keep the Sunrisers on the competition, and the parading streets, We, the current corps would not be wearing medals to our respective jobs and schools. Everyone involved in keeping the Sunriser name alive, whether you were a parent giving your kid a ride, a wife or a husband, giving up your time so your spous could march in the corps, opening your house, your cars, for rides, providing housing and food, making alterations on uniforms, helping someone out with dues, instructing for free, driving a few hours after friday night practice to pick up a horn because a new person joined the corp that night, I thank you and congratulate you on a job well done last weekend. Because of the everyone involved with the Sunriser family over the past years, last weekend would not have been possible. You all deserved to be on that field for retreat and receiving a medal for helping keep this great Drum Corps Alive. From the bottom of my heart, Thank You

To the Entire Fusion Organization, and to the ones that I personally consider family, Congratulations on a job well done, You are a corps to keep a look out for in the future, See you under the lights Sunday Night in 2008. To my knowledge, i do not think there has been a corps in history that has accomplished as much as you have in your inaugural year of existence. Congrautaltions.

Ben, hey whatsup buddy, Looking at the standings, obviously Govies, Sun, and Alliance, and SoCal is the wildcard,being that they do not have a score for August. Things could be very interesting. Let's see what happens.

I am a little biased towards the Kilties, So my vote is for the kilties making finals.

That sounds like one heck of a good time, maybe one of these years, i will get to the midwest for a few shows. One of these yease, one of these years...

Last year we stayed at the R.I.T. Inn, that was fun, but staying in a hotel with another corps, that should be even better,maybe we can get some sun vs. frontier party games going

I know for me, the bigger the horn, the more volume that is able to be produced, and because i like killing myself, more weight. THe heavier the better. I tried playing an old valve/rotor contra with my mouthpiece, i could not, i think my mouthpiece is too big. Big horn , big mouthpiece, always love G

Sunrisers are in G. Fusion, to my knowledge has a brand new set of Yamaha B-flat horns.

I would like to say, that even though the show did not have a full panel of judges, it was a great show. Placements and scores might a but askew because of the lack of certain captions not being judged, but hey what are you going to do. Congratulations to FusionCore for doing a performance well done, and taking 2nd place in their second show ever. I am sure that because of the judging panel situation, this might be the fluke for a corps competing in their first year. I don't to take anything away from them, let them enjoy this victory and milestone in their infancy. I hope the scores do not go down, and maybe all four corps that competed in Woodbridge, congratulations for putting on a great show for a small crowd. I was able to watch the Crusader show after my performance, great show, and i got to catch pieces of MCL's show during practice. Very talented Contra line. See everyone later in August. Later.

Paetec, fond memories of no lines, no yard markers(and if there were, i did not see any), and so much rain that i think even Noah would have said that is too much.

I bought a G&W Williwaw for christmas, i love the #### thing. I use to play on a Vincent Bach 18, this is slightly bigger, or at least it feels slightly bigger. Great tone, virtually no warm up needed, even though warming it is a good thing, and getting up into the higher register of the horn is easier also(i march with a Dyansty 4-Valve in G). The only complaint i have though, it seems to absorb more heat than my vincent bach did. And in the summer heat, that is an issue. But water takes care of that. Has anyone else had any issues with their stainless mouthpiece getting hotter then when they played on a brass mouthpiece? just wondering if i am the only one.

Too bad i live on the east coast, or else i think this would be a very cool show to go to. Drum Corps and Non Drum Corps musicians performing in the same venue. Very cool.

So we need at least 5 of us to make an ensemble, that should be easier than trying to get 100 of us.

Thank you Fran, for that. What is the size limit for brass ensembles?