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Here's a clue: he did the White Rats for a season or so . . . . .

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The white hanky in his back pocket was a trademark. He would wave it like a surrender flag to stop an errant hornline headed for a musical trainwreck.

Too many celebs on this thread, we're getting blasé now.

Rule A: Bb horns are legal. F horns are legal. But Bb-F horns are not allowed. Rule B: There is a 10 point penalty for any contestant wearing pink. Rule C: You must be at least as tall as Cupcakes Curran to go on this ride.

Jeez, we have people actually GUESSING on the Guess Who thread. #3 is smiling because he was attending his first DCA !!!

I know a guy that uses an adapter like that. And you don't wanna sound like him. Seriously, ANY mouthpiece/adapter combo makes a huge mess out of the backbore area, which is a good chunk of the overall mouthpiece science. Always use a mouthpiece with the proper shank for the particular receiver of the particular instrument.

I immediately noticed the black bags over all the (non-matching) drums.

Ever since I've been watching the Cavaliers, most of 'em wore green shirts.

Tour fees IS tuition.

Gotta love a corps whose season is just a single performance. Too bad the gig is 750 miles from home.

I'm in the market for an Anaheim Kingsmen "Alive in '75" T-shirt.

Don't buy a marching horn. Just practice your concert horn. But if you're not already built like Charles Atlas, get yourself some dumbbells and tone up some arm muscles. You'll need 'em to hold up that big horn the corps issues you.

Well, I can tell ya how the OSU halftime show ended . . . . . . .

My membership dues were $25. That got us a 10-day VFW Nationals/World Open tour, housed in dorms and hotels, eating in cafeterias and restaurants.

Look like North drums gone South.

Hey kid, want a Multi-year Performance Contract ??? Easy. See your local Army Recruiter

Guess who I found stuck in my chimney ???

I got your PM, I have a few of the parts in my very-last-of-the-Olds-parts stash. But what I always did with the 02s and 06s was use a slide expander tool (Your repair shop should have one of these) to tighten up the fit of the inner slides.

This model: just tune it to My Dog Has Fleas

The BU-02 soprano and BU-06 mellophone featured the infamous spring-loaded TUNING ADJUSTER mechanism. It was not a chromatic slide. It was intended to be a compensator for the A flat which had to be played as a 7th partial. It was a leaky mechanical nightmare. (I have yet to find a good practical compensator mechanism on a marching horn.) Here's how it was supposed to work: You adjusted the pitch compensation for the A flat with the ring labeled TUNING. Then you tuned the entire instrument with the ring marked ADJUSTER. Got that? The original BU-01 and BU-05 models played better. So did the hardware-bare Duratones.

How many do you want? I can get 4. Also a K-90 and a small Kanstul 3V. PM me on this forum for the details.

From 1963-1966 the Ludwig Classic bugles (Soprano, French Horn, Baritone, Bass-Baritone) were built by Holton. Now get out your WFL catalog. Their instruments were marketed at least a decade earlier.

Best snare-drummers-spinning-rifles line: 1977 EOC, 1st tour