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I'd like to see all tymp players wearing overseas caps. No prob bending over.

Paul Lewis marched with the Toledo/Maumee Demons on the mid-60s, then joined the US Navy and while stationed at Great Lakes marched with the Kenosha Kingsmen. In the back seat of his Chevy was a monstrous reel-to-reel tape machine, powered by a 12V inverter. He constantly played dubbs of Fleetwoods and Stets, and amassed bootlegs of other performances. An external amp powered a 15" speaker mounted behind the seat - Paul unwittingly invented the kicker box two decades before the Rap era began !!!

REAL shakos were made with a wire or wicker frame and could breathe through the covering fabric, and also often had air vents.There were available in conventional diametrical hat sizes, incremented in 1/8ths. Today's shakos are built over a plastic pot, with NO ventilation. And they are available in only a few generic sizes S M L XL. Genuine shakos fit much better, and stayed put. Plastic shakos flop all over the place, hence the chinstrap is worn Dork-o style.

the song that begins with a soloist: I can Name That Tune in ONE note.

Andy, you gotta teach these guys the official Cabs' Parade Rest. Is it right hand over left, or left over right? The AL Inspection Judge wants to know who to tick.

Ever hear of Truman W. Crawford?

a palindrome

If there are any low E flats in the band music, you can't get them on a 2V bugle. Read my previous posts on how to transpose and find substitute pitches.

Pulling the tuning slide out will put the bugle somewhere between G and G flat. Now, be specific on what the OP should do with his lips.

And on the field, this can only be done once in the season.

Blame the brass arrangers. They don't want 'em. The percussion arrangers want every toy in the book. They're a grownup version of the kid who always had to have the full box of 64 crayon colors. The brass writers were the kid who had only a tray of 4 poster paints.

Finally, someone is cutting those $%^&* G snaredrums down to Bb.

do you also like Creamsicles ?

Name withheld to protect the guilty: An instructor I know lined up all his Whaley-Royce Imperial mellophones and French horns, in their cases, after the last parade of the season. Then "accidentally" backed the bus over them. Then filed an insurance claim and bought a full set of new Olds Ultratone midvoices.

I have a K-20, a K-40, a K-50, five K-70s, a K-80, and a K-90 here. Both stencils you describe are on my bugles. The "SilverSonic" logo [like a football with the ends sliced off] also is on my early-70s nickelplated 4B trombone. Zig Kanstul, while he was at Benge in Anaheim, developed the American Command bugles. Three soprano models (Premiere Edition, PowerBore, and AmericanA) debuted for the 1977 season, the baritone arrived a year later. Then King purchased Benge, Zig went to work for Conn for a couple of years, and the A.C. models [with a few mods] became the K-20 and K-70. I also have an A.C. "Alto Soprano, identical to the K-40 except for the wrap of the 2nd valveslide. King also made G-D bugles in the 30s, I have a compact [triple coil wrap] soprano in raw brass. There is no rhyme or reason to King bugle serial #s.

The fifth partial of a G bugle is a note we call E. Together with Cs and Gs from the same harmonic series, it will be the third of a C major triad.

Paul Collins, who runs the Brass Shoppe mobile repair unit, can tell you some stories. He says the players learn a drill change, but the instruments don't catch on as fast.

There actually were FOUR G picc 2-piston models offered. In addition to the DEG above, there were also versions from Olds, American Command, and the King K-10. All are pretty far & few between, I've never seen the King.

Bb horns are not balanced properly for spinning.

That horn is an acoustical mismatch. First, the bad news. The valve cluster is the same .468 unit used on all the other DEG smallbores. Way too big for a picc. Now, the good news. Don Getzen used a Schilke beryllium bell, you'll notice it's almost tinfoil-thin. Advertise your horn on the Trumpet Herald web forum. The techies there will be quite interested in the bell.

Those Blue Rock GOOD BUSES became legendary.

I have a four-valve King sousaphone, they made them for about a century.

We are not required to display our badges while in a corps uniform. So Tony couldn't bust me at Harrisburg, cuz I was always wearing one of FIVE uniforms. [Or in a transitional mode backstage.]

Check out the link, blow up the pic, and you will see it is an Olds Ultratone for sale. But Kanstul HAS made 2 piston + 1 rotary contras for the USMC.

In 1969, there were no Kings. Zig brought out the American Command sopranos in the 1977 season and baritones in 1978. Then Benge was sold to King and the A.C. horns morphed into the K-series. The venerable K-90 contra came out in 1982. There were King single-valve-with-piston-lock sopranos built in the 30s, and straight bugles earlier than that.