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As a member of the Blue Knights, I didn't expect it either! When they fired our vis staff in 22, we knew on finals day, and had a decent idea why. But I was completed blindsided by the news that our vis staff was leaving. I thought they really knew their #### and were awesome, and I love marching bent leg, so I'm really curious to see who replaces them.

I'm interested in the trivia game . . . any idea how much it might cost to ship?

Spring Training in Colorado is lovely, certainly a plus to marching BK. Nothing quite beats seeing the rockies from the field. Although if you're not careful the sun is deadly at altitude, I got sunburned just from learning drill at April camp lol. Onto matters about the season, I'm happy to offer my perspective as a member of BK 22 and BK 23. The staff this year, really know what they're doing, and and working overtime to make sure we have a successful summer. Design wise and Prep-wise (no pun intended), we are lightyears ahead of where we were at this point last season. Members had a fully fleshed out show concept in January, while last year we waited till April to get just the half baked concept. We have much more of the music, and have played most of our book at a camp so far. April Camp was spent learning drill, and we have the entire opener on the move with music. This is a drastic change from 22, when we were about 3 weeks into spring training before we had the opener down. We also have been covering dance fundamentals, as well as learning choreo and working with the wonderful people at Marching Health to strengthen our vis. I've been having so much more fun receiving more content and harder content to work on visually before the season. We also have something special cooking up in the battery that y'all won't want to miss this summer. Not only do we have some very talented members and a cooking book, courtesy of Jeff Ausdemore, but I dare say we'll be putting a percussion instrument on the field that no one has seen in drum corps before. Back in December I was very much on the fence about whether coming back to BK this year was the right choice, but seeing all the changes the admin and new staff have brought, I couldn't be more optimistic for our season. Vibe was certainly a disappointing show to say the least, but I think fans are really going to like what we have in store this yea

I have some bias, as I'll be marching there. But of all the corps in that sort of range, I think BK is the most likely to reclaim a spot in finals. While our major staff changes make it difficult to predict our exact trajectory, from what I've seen firsthand of our design staff, visual staff, and brass staff, inspire a lot of confidence in me that the pitfalls we fell into last year will not be problems this year.

Compass has folded. I marched with someone who marched compass their last year of existence: apparently their head director was embezzling funds.

I have recently come into possession of a King K-40 Flugelhorn Bugle, and I was wondering if anyone who's marched or owns one has any recommendations for proper mouthpieces. It takes my alto horn (tenor horn) mouthpiece, but I'm not convinced that that mouthpiece is creating the best tone or intonation for the horn. If anyone knows what mouthpieces corps used for any alto or flugel bugle I would love to know what works, the mid voice section is such a hard beast to tame!