SkyDog
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Yawn - haven't we heard enough about the echo?
Look at the date on the post we replied to. I don't think we were b****ing about LOS yet in 2005. I think the "Happy Holidays" clip in '05 may have been a camp recording in a gym.
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Just click on 27 Lancers. It will come up automatically.
...if you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer. (The web page uses the IE-specific "bgsound" tag to load the MP3 file.)
Those of us who don't use IE can hear the file by opening http://www.27thlancers.net/dannyboy.mp3 .
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Nice echo in that gym
Yeah, what he said.
...although the video clip he saw five years ago was probably from an actual gymnasium and not LOS.
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I came across a late 1970s or early 1980s set of Slingerland basses in our school's storage area. The 32" drum from that set is actually lighter than the 28" drum from the same set. The 32" drum has a thinner shell (3-ply versus 6-ply?) with reinforcing rings at the bearing edges. Both are noticeably lighter than the 28" Dynasty we currently use for a bottom bass.
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Stripping Yamaha drums is a major pain in the ***. The glue they use is tough. Heat gun, stiff putty knife, and lots of patience.
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The Japanese drums (some of which are pretty darn big) are taiko drums. Kodo is a well-known taiko troupe from Japan.
As for the old parts "the other Mike" was asking about... There have been a number of different mounting systems, each with different parts holding them together. Some of them had clips on the individual drums that connected them to tabs or rails on a carrier. Some drum setups were bolted together using a "backbar" between the two biggest drums to connect to the carrier. There have been different backbar designs over the years, but the concept is still in use. HERE is a recent type of Pearl backbar on Steve Weiss Music's web site. Some recent backbars, like the linked Pearl backbar made by Randall May, have a hinge built-in. Most older backbars weren't hinged, but used "tilters" as a hinge to connect to carriers' j-bars. A pair of Dynasty snare tilters is pictured HERE (upside-down), again from Steve Weiss' web site.
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A Brazilian surdo is probably the closest thing I can think of size-wise. They can be anywhere from 14" to around 26" across and are typically about 24" deep. I think the Blue Devils may have used surdos at the end of their percussion feature in 1992.
Single tenor drums (think snare drums without the snares across the bottom head) typically aren't that large, but I suppose they could be. Pearl's contemporary pipe band tenor drums are 12" deep and up to 18" across. Hosbilt makes tenor sizes up to 18" by 14" deep and they offer a "baritone" drum that's 20" by 14" deep. I think that's pretty close to the size of the drum the Cavaliers used at the beginning of Malcolm Arnold's Cornish Dance (Mvt 4) in 1992.
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If you're going to throw staff wins into the mix (even though the OP clearly states # of rings as a MARCHING member), I'll put up Dave Gibbs and(I think) Wayne Downey at BD....13 each (Although only Dave has one as a marching member).
Don't forget ScoJo. He was involved in all of BD's titles, too. Three times as a member.
He also has more percussion titles than the Blue Devils since he picked one up with SCV in 1991.
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Apologies if I'm off the mark - I thought he did a stint with Devils in the early-mid 90's. Best of luck to Tom, Catherine and VK.
No, but you might be thinking of a decade earlier when some guys followed him from Spirit to the Blue Devils.
1975 Freelancers
1976-77 Oakland Crusaders
1978-81 Spirit of Atlanta
1982-90 Blue Devils
1992-94 Velvet Knights
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Therefore, by purchasing the music [a CD] that is being used by the skaters, in my opinion the composer has already received their due.
When you purchased the CD, you purchased the right to listen to it privately. If the music is to be played in a public venue, broadcast, redistributed, re-arranged, etc., additional licensing is required.
I paid for a wedding a little over a year ago, and there was some music requested that the DJ didn't have already and had to buy. There was never any mention of needing to secure rights or pay copyright fees.The venue should have a blanket license through performing rights organizations like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.
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They're not generally any harder to tune, but you have to tune them more often as the Mylar stretches. They also tend to wear out quite a bit faster.
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Hasn't phantom switched to Jupiter/Mapex ?
They switched to Jupiter brass for the 2009 season, but still play Dynasty drums.
You're right. UNT does mean very little to the marching activity.The drumline's been pretty successful and influential. LOTS of drum corps and WGI names have come from and gone though that program.
{EDIT} I got distracted while typing my post (pretending to work and all), and Euphscott beats me to the punch.
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While they're not my favorite, Dynasty drums aren't that bad.
I bought a set for my high school line and I'm especially satisfied when I consider that the quotes I received for Pearl drums were almost 1½ times the price I paid for the Dynasty gear.
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I don't think it's possible to forget Gail. Zeke asked about 1990-2003, so we just didn't go far enough back to list his name. (Gail was the primary arranger from what, 1970 through 1980?)
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Why is everyone bailing on Dynasty all of a sudden?
Does "everyone" consist of just the Blue Devils and RCC?
Corps and other groups change their endorsement deals once in a while, and considering the ties between the Blue Devils and RCC, I'm not shocked.
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This may not be 100% accurate, but as best I remember it...
2003-10 - Key Poulan
2000-02 - Dean Westman
1996-99 - Gordon Henderson
1994-95 - Dave Carico
1992,93 - ?
1988-91 - Gordon Henderson
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I personally don't want to push all rules back to x year and set it in stone. What I do want is two very simple rules that help define what Drum and Bugle Corps is.
1. All sounds generated on the field are acoustic.
2. Instrumentation is limited to bell-front valved brass and percussion.
Now you can feel free to sing, dance, play Bb, narrate... go nuts! Find creative ways to make your ideas come to life and reach the ears of the audience and judges.
I like the way you think. Simple rules that keep the activity's identity intact while allowing creativity.
Eliminate pit.Simplifies logistics. And marching keyboards are cheaper than concert types.
Cheaper isn't always better. Marching keyboards sound like crap, weigh a metric ton, and aren't conducive to good technique. If we're going to allow keyboards at all, please for the love of God, use real ones.
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Are these what you're looking for?
http://cgi.ebay.com/YAMAHA-MARCHING-TENOR-...=item255688105a
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So fat 40-something year old men aren't needed?
Probably not the target audience at the Faith Generation Youth Church.
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Rose Parade trivia for you, as it has been told to me: "The Big Brown Music Machine" remains the only college/university band to have marched in the Rose Parade without having the football team playing in the Rose Bowl...
Whoever told you that needs to do some fact checking. ;-)
Since 1950:
1958 Occidental College
1961 Adams State College
1965 Mississippi Valley State College
1968 Mississippi Valley State College
1969 Rutgers University
1971 Morris Brown College
1973 Cal Poly Pomona
1977 CSU Long Beach
1980 Southern University
1981 San Jose State University
1995 Morris Brown College
1995 Southwest Missouri State University
2003 South Dakota State University
2006 Alabama A&M University
2008 South Dakota State University
2008 Missouri State University
2008 Virginia Military Institute Regimental Band
2009 Prairie View A&M University
2010 Ohio University
2011 North Carolina Central University
2011 Western Carolina University
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Interesting that with all the experimentation with carbon fiber, mahogany, maple combinations they still haven't come up with drums that sound better than the custom maple lines yamaha provides the DCI world class corps.
"SFZFAN" likes Yamaha drums? Really?! You don't say... ;)
I'm a little partial to Pearl's maple drums myself, with or without the carbon fiber.
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Try White Sabers drum corps att Mark Gerber they had some not sure if they were ever sold
They used Dynasty DFS "shorty" snares in 2005-06 (shown here). The "shorty" drums are the same as the normal 14x12 DFX drums, but two inches shallower. I don't believe the corps ever owned any Dynasty wedge snares.
...but the CorpsVets used Dynasty wedge snares in 2006 (and '07?).
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The drums with Carbonply badges were carbonply drums. Some, like SCV's, didn't have the carbon fiber outer ply, but they did have the inner one.
Help on basics block
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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If your high schoolers are anything like the ones I work with, transitions from move to move might be a bit of an adventure. They're not absolutely confident in what they're doing -- they tend to be passive, afraid to commit and make a mistake, so they watch their peers and try to follow along. (They don't realize this won't work because they'll always be late and LATE IS BAD.) To try to get them to commit on the first beat of a move, I've been doing a "plus one": Do the first move, then plant their lead foot as if they're making the first step in the direction of the next move. This is also handy to address changes in technique when changing directions, like making sure hips rotate correctly for wind players or making sure that hips don't rotate for drummers.