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I'm looking to purchase a 3 valve Kanstul contra keyed in "G". I would like to make this purchase within the next 60 days so that I can start getting ready for next season.

Technically there is no benefit of electronics in drum corps. This concept was taken from the HBCU show band system. Electronics for this group of bands was to introduce singers, songs and basically to hype the crowd. And really according to DCI's own rules for age, membership and so forth all of the electronics must be operated by a corps member; because that person(s) are to be part of the marching group and below the age of 21. This is one big part of modern day drum corps that has been smoodge over amonst the hirarchy. In real drum corps to hype the crowd you played great selections of music, dynamic chords ("G" horn style), great drumming and a color guard that accented everything. Let's get these music arrangers to prove themselves (skillwise) and not rely on electronics. If you want true musically electricity then write better, arrange better march better. Drum corps audiences are not dumb and do reconize real and true talent.

I started out in 1972 with the Racine Kilties organization. I marched through the 1977 season. I am very old school minded about drum corps; so I'm not into the electronics and non-G horns. First off the bands never asked (or wanted) anything to do with drum corps at all. Now all they do is promote band generated agendas through certain key people associated with DCI. This is done so as to influence drum corps to their (bands) liking. Back in my day drum corps built and maintained it's own way of competing, songwriting and crowd pleasure by understanding the "G" bugle. The "G" bugle is pitchy in nature, but provides such power for the player. I have watched several members of the audience hurry back to their seats by only hearing a C major chord of a corps that was about to compete. The band officials have been jealous of that kind of response for eons. Music instructors that lacked real talent pushed for DCI to switch over to a B-flat horn, so that more music could be written and played well. So people that didn't know any better bought it. But Kenny Norman has arranged (for "G" bugles) such charts as MacArthur's Park, Roundabout, War Child, Chattanooga and Auld Lang Syne for musical impact and appreciation. Matter-of-fact in the chart for Chattanooga at the end of the song the drum line mimics an old locomotive going down the tracks. All music or sound was generated on the field by way of the horn line or drum line. None of this electronic stuff. Garfield Cadet took a penalty point just to sing Amen at the end of one of their songs. Then their director partioned DCI to have the human voice (other than the drum major) be heard on the field of competion. Old school drum corps did everything they needed to with the equipment that they could carry onto the field. Now there's 3 or 4 gators bringing out props. There is a whole lot more that I could say about this matter, but before I go I will say this. As far as the musician is concerned he/she became better at their instrument; their individual skills went above the staff of where they started. Music directors (not all of them) became angry, because their students were learning at a rate that wasn't due to them. They wanted to control that. Mr. Holland if you want more information just let me know.