Dave
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Yeah...that's not true.
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What do you normally play on? A lot of corps have their members get a Conn Helleberg and that's a good one if you want to avoid having a woofy sound, but there a lot of ones out there (that don't also require spending hundreds of dollars). Perantucci makes some great mouthpieces, but I would advise against getting one that's too large; I'd pick one that's more in the middle, like a 64, to preserve articulation clarity. A 48 or 50 is going to be massive and you may come out sounding muddier than you want to. You can usually get one of their mouthpieces for around $100-$120.
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Giving to pay a member's dues is not tax-deductible because it's not a donation; the member directly benefits from that money. This discussion comes up on a semi-annual basis when members come looking for sponsorships and some have been erroneously informed that they can tell would-be sponsors "It's tax-deductible!" as an incentive.
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It's gonna sound awful either way. It's cheaper to just get a practice mute.
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I've never heard of that definition of conical. The easiest way to tell if an instrument is conical or cylindrical is to take out the main tuning slide and turn it around; if you can reinsert it it's cylindrical, if not, it's conical. You can do that on a trumpet and a sop because both are, by typical definitions within the brass manufacturing industry, cylindrical instruments. Sopranos are, as I said, just trumpets with extended tubing and (at least in the case of Kanstuls) modified bells.
I don't know if they're still making those bugles (probably not), I was just using them as an example of the transition in bugle design from the older-style truly conical bugles (like these) to the style that led more directly to what were using in the first civilian corps (like this one). There used to be a bugle website run by a guy who either does or did judge brass for DCI; as I recall, he mentioned that bugles weren't standardized in G until the later style was adopted.
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Nope ! Bugles, of which Sopranos are, are conical (tapered bore) instruments. Trumpets are (considered) cylindrical bore instruments. Even though they both have tapered lead-pipes, the Bugle has a more gradual, longer taper on it's lead-pipe. Cornets and Flugel Horns also fit into this category. A Trumpet is a Trumpet, a Cornet is a Cornet, and a Bugle is a Bugle, They have different construction make-ups and they have different names for a reason. There is a Bugle in Bb, it's construction? Conical ! That's why it's called a Bb Bugle and not a Trumpet (Yes I know this flies in the face of my signature line).
No, they're not. A G soprano actually has more cylindrical tubing than a Bb trumpet. The reason is that in their manufacture, horn makers basically are taking a trumpet body and just extending the tubes (which is also the reason G bugles have issues with tuning; they weren't designed to play in G, they are essentially horns altered to be pitched in that key, when you really get down to the horn making basics of it). They use a lot of the same tooling to make G and Bb horns, they're just using longer tubes to lower the pitch.
Now, old-style bugles were certainly conical--but the bugles that were used in the establishment of the first civilian drum & bugle corps post-WWI were actually dubbed "field trumpets" because they were so much more trumpet-like in appearance than their much more conical predecessors. I am a fan of the bugle terminology as much as the next guy simply out of respect for history, but the reality is that the only substantial difference between a soprano and a trumpet is a few inches of tubing--cylindrical tubing.
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Build it and they will come.
DCI and Indy built it and the people are coming. Sound issues are improving. $125 a ticket is a small price to pay for the certainty of the show going on and for the safety of the children and spectators. this is a football field in a great stadium. Not some half baked baseball field in the middle of the ghetto.
What?
Are you going to seriously pretend that every finals before this might as well have been on some vacant lot before this? We've had finals in many excellent stadiums, in great cities around the country, and without half the issues that have been consistently brought up since finals moved into this stadium. Not one single finals has been rained out that I'm aware of. Frankly, Ed, your argument is irrational.
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Who know what other domes with retractable roofs may be built in the next 7 years as well... maybe one stadium by then will be more advanced and make it more possible to open the roof if need be.
But remember...that's how the whole thing was sold to us in the first place. "It'll be great, we can open the roof or close it if it rains!" Then once DCI is in there..."No, we can't open the roof, it's too hot!"
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With all due respect, if he was having trouble doing basic things like feeding and housing the corps, who exactly failed to hold up their end of the contract first?
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Didn't Les Etoiles do the upside down drumming thing like 15 years ago?
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Moving to Reviews forum.
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Moving to Reviews forum.
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One more thing abot the props. IMO, what made Le Tour and Houdini great had little if anything to go with the props. The well arranged and performed music with drill written for the capability of the corps is what sold those shows. IMO you could have pulled all the props from those shows and you still had 8th place corps. The last 3 years have seen big visual additions from a prop standpoint mid to late season. The visuals added to the big front field wall in 09, 10, cityscape this year, etc... none of which have impacted vis scores, at all. It's a waste of money and effort.
Amen.
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It's called polyphonics or multiphonics. You have to sing very high or it won't come across over the note you're playing at the time. I do it from time to time, or sometimes just do the "scratching" imitation with my band. Nat did the multiphonics, but a lot of his scratching was layered in. He was inspired in large part by "Scratch" from the Roots, and YBBB has a couple songs that are lifted straight from the Roots' rep.
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Or you'll get wet to hear nothing due to cancellation.
Have finals ever been cancelled?
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Duplicate threads merged.
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There's already a thread here.
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Thread closed.
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Since this problem has been dealt with, thread closed.
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DCI is responsible for securing housing for finals week, or at least it was when I was marching. I haven't heard about that changing recently.
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That's...troubling.
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The following doesn't pertain to drum corps, but does to the whole licensing issue.
We know a middle school drama teacher and they perform a musical every year. Last year, they did a recently written, fairly common/popular one, and the teacher told the kids and audience no video taping and sharing on youtube. One kid did it anyway without her knowledge. A few weeks later she received a phone call from the author of the musical talking about seeing the video and giver her several compliments on the production, which I thought was extremely nice. At the end of the conversation, he told her that while he appreciated the wiork they did, she better get it down before his publisher found it and came after her and that he had no control over them if they sued. We thought it was super nice of him to call and give her a heads up to save her skin. So, it's not always accurate to blame the artists for these licensing issues. It usually the people that get the majority of the money that are the problem.
IANAL but I'm not sure if they could just sue without at least sending a cease and desist first and giving the offender an opportunity to remove the illegal work. Still, a wise move.
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A fantastic band, and that sound is so classic; it wouldn't be the same if you changed out the alto horns for French horns, or the Bb and Eb tubas for C and F. I am not a G bugle hardliner, but among other thigns it's the British brass band tradition and the long and staid history of amazing musicianship with little change to the actual equipment that convinces me, drum corps belongs as an acoustic brass and percussion ensemble. There is so much that can be done and expressed in that idiom that you can't simulate any other way.
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And if folks don't properly get rights, they should get in legal trouble. Why are folks losing respect for intellectual property? It is one of the ways the US became a world leader with patents and copyrights. If you toil for hours to produce a product you deserve to be compensated if others want to use it. You wouldn't dream of someone building and instrument but not wanting to be compensated. So why is the music different?
The Chinese are stealing company patented ideas left and right and putting US companies out of business. This has happened to some of the businesses within my company. They steal the technology blatantly and produce at low cost because they didn't have to do the development. This is the same issue with knock-off designer products. I hope the attorneys that sue are successful. Go about it the right way or stick to public domain!
Semi-off topic...the interesting thing about China is that not only do they not respect other countries' copyrights and trademarks, it's almost an anti-copyright environment there. My business has goods manufactured in China and imported, and while there are certainly a lot of factories churning out highly questionable crap, there are also factory owners in the new, (relatively) more open China that recognize to some degree the West's desire for a certain level of quality and seek to provide it. You just have to demand it and inspect to make sure corners aren't being cut in the process. With the exception of a couple of Conn-Selmer's student lines and Blessing, virtually every student model instrument in use today is either made or is produced with parts manufactured in China.
But if one factory starts having a lot of success selling a particular product while other factories struggle, they are actually required to reveal their trade secrets to the government which shares them with their struggling counterparts. That's the big downside of manufacturing successful products in China, you can forget about keeping any trade secrets or designs to yourself, and if there's anything that eventually leads companies here to divest from that, it will be long-term costs associated with the immediate production of so many generic versions of name-brand stuff.
As to the topic at hand and the idea of a law firm going hunting for suit targets, no big surprise there. That's one reason we've been so adamant about this place not having links to illegal videos, whether copies of DCI or DCA-produced products or fan-made videos, other sites that existed to share such links without actually producing the illegal copies have been shut down. This isn't the first time I've heard of a law firm going out searching for what seems like easy money trying to hunt down copyright violators.
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It's gotta be a tie between UNT and RCC.