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Stu, The answer to your question is complicated. The Alumni from the Corps from 60's through the 90's really have no interest in supporting a junior corps. They have made it clear to the VKYAO organization that they just want to have an alumni corps and do their own thing, hang out and talk about the old days and do drum corps. If that is what they wish there is nothing the VKYAO can do about it. The Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps can just Move foward and continue to provide an opportunity for the new generation to be apart of. The same opportunity that the alumni had a opportunity to be a part of, a Drum and Bugle Corps. As for the connection question, many corps have changed there legal name though out there history for one reason or another. If ever time the organization changes there legal name that the former alumni from the former name are no long part of the new organization then yes there is no connection, but I am sure all the alumni of the cadet would disagree. (They have changed there name at least a half dozen times in there history.) After all this, the bottom line is this…. If All the Alumni and Fans of any Drum corps Don’t support the activity, More and More Corps with go under and soon there will be no more Drum and Bugle Corps. Once there we over 500 corps, now there is less the 100. I hope this answers your question Troy Emmons

The g soprano is pitch a minor 3rd lower then a Bb Trumpet. if you hold the 3rd vlv down on a trumpet it puts it into the key of G. As you add tubing to a instrument it lowers the pitch. And the G horn is 19% longer then a Bb horn

So, what was your favorite Corps meal? (Please describe what made it your favorite)

If anyone has any questions and do not want to use the internet to post there info to get it.... There is always the telephone and The US Postal Service that you can use. All the contact info for every corps is on there websites or on DCI's website.

put open class finals on a saturday night in the big stadium and things would be different....

What would make a difference in the activity is: If every person involved in drum corps simply filters all there spending money through the drum corps of there choice fundraiser programs. Grocery store rewards card is the easiest thing, FREE MONEY Most corps have e-scrip programs or paper/gift card programs. for example the average family spends about $900 a month on purchases (food, clothing, gas, etc) if you filter that money through the gift cards and get an average of 4% donated that’s $36 a month times 12 months is $432 a year times what 30,000 people that went to finals this year would be $12,960,000. Now that would make a difference. Troy Emmons President VKYAO vkyao website

yes, if you play the same concert pitch on a g horn and a Bb horn it is the same note and length of horn. and should carry the same. What I am saying and what I think you are looking for a answer to is when you write music for the different keyed horns, you write them in keys that the horn plays best in. and so that you don't have a lot of weird finger combinations or in the case of the old days the horns could not play the notes. So G horn songs are written in a low key then the Bb songs. Thats why it is said the G horns are louder. Your playing lower notes.

The difference is the key the horns are in, not the notes that you playing. a Bb is a Bb. (length determines pitch) G bugle is a longer lower voiced horn then the Bb trumpet. The lower the pit the further it carries. (Think parade as a band comes toward you hear the bass drums first). So since bugles are in a lower key the sound carries more then the higher pitched Bb horns.

Why would you buy that old of a instrument, for that much money, when you could buy a brand new instrument for the same price?