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    Valve Rotor Baritones - Need Advice

    in Brass Forum

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    I am in a position to acquire a bunch of valve rotor baritones for my mini corps project but the issue is, I have never played a piston rotor horn and do not know what notes they are capable of (or not rather) and how to get the pitches. If anyone is fluent with this type of instrument and can give me a basic walkthrough so I can see if I can write horn charts around the missing notes, I would appreciate it.

    What corps are signed up to do the round robin of parades in Maryland

    in DCA - All-Age Corps Discussions

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    I always liked our little mini tour for 4th of July weekend. We would have to do a parade in uniform and the next without jackets so the sweat could evaporate a little though. The only bad memory I have from the Maryland tour is trying (unsuccessfully) to convince the bus driver that the bay door wasn't latched on the trip home one year. (2004 I think.) He figured it out when the door flew open on the highway and 2 snares met their maker in front of a truck...Twisted Metal

    Mini Corps won't be recorded this year.

    in DCA - All-Age Corps Discussions

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    I thought those rights were intended for recording purposes at mini corps. That was the impression I was under when I was in charge of getting them for Sky in '07. The way I always understood the laws is that you have to have the rights to perform the song for a paid performance (I.e. admission charged to the event) or if it is going to be recorded and sold. We were able to use the Sky Signature in 2005 for on field warmup without getting rights to it because it was not part of the performance that the fans paid for. Technicality I know. Since I and E is free to attend and there will be no recording, why would it be necessary? (Based on what I thought the laws were or what they actually were 7 years ago anyway.)

    A small side note: If you play a solo, duet. whatever and are using stock sheet music like out of a Hal Leonard book, that is their publication and it is perfectly fine to perform without additional rights. That's what all of that copyright stuff is for at the bottom of the page.

    I & E Song Advice

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    I wanted to post and get some ideas for a piece to play for mellophone for DCA I&E this year. I was originally going to do Don Ellis' Loss on soprano but I couldn't get it to sound right unless it was on my trumpet which I don't want to take.

    So I have a 2 valve G mello and I want to do some sort of ballad type number. I don't care about how technical it is since I have no shot of winning, I just want to play. Any ideas?

    The Pronunciation of "Caballeros"

    in DCA - All-Age Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Skylinersop16

    If you listen to some old recordings from the 60's and 70's you will hear the announcers say it with the 'y' sound sometimes. In Spanish "LL" is an actual letter of the alphabet (and so is "ch" pronounced chey.) Any word with a double L is pronounced with the y sound i.e. tortilla (tortiya), ella (eya) and of course caballero (cabayero - meaning gentleman.)

    I would imagine that since you would have to be speaking spanish for it to count, it is perfectly acceptable to pronounce the L's in English.

    This message has been brought to you by the New York State Education Department and their mandatory 4 years of foreign language studies. :tongue:

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    DCA DVD

    in DCA - All-Age Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Skylinersop16

    I got an email from DCA regarding the DVDs not too long ago and it explained exactly what was going on and when they were going to ship. I don't know where the heck it went. I spent a good 15 minutes using the search features in Gmail to recover it when I saw this post so I could copy it in.

    Nevermind. I could not find it because it wasn't an email. It was on the DCA Facebook page. Here is the post:

    "WHERE'S MY DVD??!

    We get lots of emails from fans who've placed orders for DVDs of the 2013 championship events, wondering why they haven't received them yet!

    Our 2013 products will begin shipping on December 1. It does say that when you order a disc online, but we guess many people miss that. So, fear not, your orders aren't lost or delayed - shipping starts December 1; we're in final post-production now!"

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