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True, but is this worm worth digging up?

Now that Corky has been IDed, we have opened a real can of worms.

Vis guy on the R - - - wrote the drill for a DCA champion --- and marched as a DM wearing his former corps' uniform.

One of these 3 spent some substantial time in the USMC.

It would synchronize perfectly to Wizard of Oz visuals.

The widest slide is the main slide. It affects every pitch. The other slides are individual valve circuit slides. Follow their path back to the appropriate valve to ID them.

Sorry folks, G horns are not more conical. They are all made from the major components of Bb horns. There is no special tooling for bugles. To make a G horn from Bb parts, tubing must be added. This tubing must be cylindrical. Therefore G drumcorps bugles are proportionately more cylindrical than their Bb progenitors, and have been that way for about the last 85 years.

No one forced them, but there WAS a rule on corps size. The DCI founders imposed a 135 member limit, the reasoning being that this was the capacity of 3 busses. After two seasons, this number was lowered to 128 for a couple of decades. (DCA had already imposed their 120 member limit.) Now before DCA and DCI, there never was anything in the rulebooks about corps size. Many corps were one-bus-and-a-Uhaul corps. Many evolved, in the 60s, to be a two-bus-and-a-boxtruck corps. Then all of a sudden, there was a number in the bluebook. Intended to limit growth, it was just large enough to have the opposite effect. Everybody reasoned that "if we want to be competitive" they had to field the maximum membership. Well, you all know drumcorps, nobody ever aspired to be small. Everybody insisted on fielding a three-bus-and-a-semi unit. Even before they started thinking about a food truck. Just read a bunch of historic posts, every PR release in the 70s promised a fullsized corps. But then every contest review counted noses, and nearly every corps fell short of their ambitions. And 90% of them ultimately folded, trying to keep up with the Joneses.

We been there, done that. The Mariners, 40+ years ago, bribed a stadium custodian to shut off the lights and then shot off fireworks secreted in their flag poles. DCA corps have used guest star pit soloists for some time now. Electric string instruments have already been used in DCI. Majorettes were on the field for the first four decades of this activity. And the DM of Madison's 32nd Hussars used to make his entry on a white horse.

Big horns on one side of the 50 and sopranos on the other was the norm for decades. Audio symmetry was a development of the DCI era, when the 135 member limit encouraged having larger hornlines with more players per section. As nonsymmetrical drill evolved, horn sections often got badly scrambled. It took a couple of decades for the Pyware crowd to figure out how to keep horn sections together. And it needed the incessant Dr. Beat to hold the whole mess in synch.

When Mozart was my age, he had already been dead longer than he had been alive.

That matinee idol visage belies the personality of a mass murderer. Our #3 subject ran an exterminator service, and has snuffed literally billions of creatures with six legs or more. He would be most welcomed by any DCI corps touring the South.

Mario, recruit a whole section. I have FIVE chrome KING K-60 G French Horn Bugles here, on consignment. All have cases, condition VG or good. These horns play well. I cannot say the same about the 2-piston Dynastys, which have a number of design flaws. The Dynastys are largely responsible for the demise of the species. Anyone genuinely interested, message me on this forum.

Way before he ever held a bugle, #3 was a seasoned performer. His mother directed local musicals and revues, and always tapped him for some role.

The gates were not manned by DCI vols. They were stadium employees. I found the elevator, and rode it up to the press box. I stepped off, and found myself right next to the security staff meeting. So I just stood there, pretending I was one of Them, nodding approval as the instructions were given. Then when the meeting was over, I settled into a vacant seat to watch me some prelims. When the Troopers came on, I relinquished that seat to its rightful owner, who had a daughter marching. His name was Don Pesceone.

That pretty famous stadium, which no longer exists, was named the same as a parade which no longer exists. That pretty famous stadium had rather porous security. Although I held a valid staff pass, I waltzed into prelims several times using a variety of ruses. I even got in by flashing my library card !

S.O.S. is a much-despised breakfast entree in the US military. Officially "Chipped Beef on Toast". Colloquially "____ on a Shingle".

Ladies and gentlemen . . . . . . performing their 2013 show . . . . . . INT !!!!!

that's because he is standing BEHIND the fat kid.

Corps have used steering wheel covers. '66 Sac had the tiger-stripe type, matching the wrap on their drums. I have also seen tube tops used for this purpose. But do the math: 19" X pi. It's scary to think of for what creatures such size tube tops are made.

AND the one and only Joe Worms behind him with the snare drum.

BITD of elbow contact and 3-man squads, it was quite possible to fill a spot on very short notice. I even guest marched American Legion Nationals Sr. prelims doing a drill I had never practiced.

29 counts. One-handed. While doffing his shako with the LH. Anyone reading this is welcome to try it at home yourself.

We lost a good friend a few months ago - Doug "Pooh Bear" Kenyon. With a Colts/BD pedigree, he graced the ranks of the senior Kilties, the Royal Airs Reunion, the Renegades, and the Kingsmen Alumni Corps. He also snagged a DCA gold medal with his baritone soloing. Although tributes to Doug were proposed, nothing has surfaced. So the Jim Ott Brass Ensemble (JOBE) will honor him next Sunday afternoon in Sacramento, prior to the Moonlight Classic. This will be an afternoon of corps camaraderie, just the way Pooh would have enjoyed it. BYO everything - a G bugle or 2, music stand & clips, food & refreshments, and a healthy love of robust musicianship. Bring everything you need to survive a tailgating afternoon in the parking lot at Sac State. We'll gather about noon, and hang until about 4 when many of us are scheduled to vol on the contest staff. We will read & rehearse Jim Ott charts from the JOBE repertoire, and some other corps classics. A band instrument or two may get destroyed in the process - see what happens when a FH meets a BFH ! An impromptu I&E decibel contest is expected to evolve. I will have TWO baritone bugles that Doug played, then GAVE to me. Feel free to play them, uninhibited as Doug would have. And if you unfortunately cannot play a bugle, just hang with us and enjoy the vibes.

Just where did you learn this? If "higher" sound waves traveled faster, you would hear them out of synch with the lower ones. All frequencies travel at the same speed. The speed of sound depends on the bulk modulus, a measurement of air density. The variables are temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure.