sssidney
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You could take one of your stock caps to a hardware store and ask them to help determine the thread size and pitch. Maybe take the whole horn in case they only have a measureing tool for outside thread diameter. Either that, or maybe you could contact Curry about sending them a cap to see if they can determine the correct cap number to use.
Another option, do you have any trumpets by other makers that Curry lists? Try one of their caps on your horn and see if there is a same size. Ask friends to try theirs until you find a popular brand that fits.
The hardware store idea makes sense! I'll give that a shot.
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That photo is epic!
Can I use it?
Chris, what size CCaps did you get? Have you tried the Xcaps?
Here's the photographers website - http://www.ianlauder.com I'm sure he would be happy to let you use the pic.
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Dave - where are you playing these days? Of course, there's always room for you to return to the Dark Side...
Anyhow - I ordered CCaps on Scooters recommendation, but they don't fit my horn. I got the Yamaha Flugel caps for my 204. But no fit.
I've mainly been playing around the house - driving the wife and kids nuts. I did take my horn to burningman this year
I really wanted to march one more year before we moved from CA to the east coast. ACK.
I sent an email to Curry about the ccaps but he didn't know the size for my mellophone. I wonder what his return policy is on these?
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Sweet!
You're now a heavy metal musician!
All you need now are the Hammond Mello Boots and you should be good to go!!:
I'm wearing mine right now!
Those will look great with some 1978 crossmen face paint.
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Honestly, what mello isn't a pig?
I believe I heard that Curry can do custom threading for his caps. Don't know the expense or turnaround time for your horn, but it's probably worth a contact. Heavy caps will definitely impact the horn, most likely in a positive way.
You should try a Hammon heavy weight mello mouthpiece too. It would balance nicely with the added mass you're adding to the mello.
Report back if you get this done!!
I just got my 6 mph yesterday. Huge diff in sound from the curry 3tf I was using.
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How old is the mello? If it has Amado waterkeys, it was made by Allied, and Getzen caps might fit. If it has standard waterkeys, it was made by Weril in Sao Paulo Brazil.
But you might just be putting lipstick on a pig.
It has the Amado waterkeys. I'm willing to risk dressing up a pig.
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Has anyone tried using Curry CCAPS (http://www.currympc.com/ccaps.html) on a 3 valve dynasty G mellophone? Which size fits? I contacted Curry but he wasn't familiar with the horn. If you got this to work what did you think? I've read an article about using these on a Yamaha 204 on http://www.middlehornleader.com/Curry%20CCaps.htm and would like to try them on my old mello.
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Just one - I’m sick of most of the sounds coming out of the pit – marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, etc. Give it a rest once in a while. Maybe these instruments can be featured a few times but I don’t need to hear 12 minutes of plink, plink, plink!!!!
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And people think Americans are callous, unfeeling, and indifferent to the plight of others around the World. I wonder why?
Agreed. Boy it really sucks to be reminded of the real world once in a while eh?
Here's a compromise for those that were so put out. Go here
http://www.fieldband.org.za/index.asp
sponsor a kid and then come back and ##### some more.
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Any Crossmen remember the Jitbag shirt?
Oh man. I am ashamed to say that I started that back in 1979. How did you hear of it? Don't tell me that Ed made that part of history night.
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Now that's funny!!!!!
All they have to do is add the white collar to the uni
yeah that does work. I added the white collar to my uniform for DCA retreat in 2003. I'll see if I can dig up a pic somewhere.
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Actually, the hot souvie item this year is the Renegades Trilogy DVD, which will be released in a few days.
It is the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Good and Evil Trilogy Shows, but in the story order (2005 was the Prequel).
Nice cover art on that DVD!!! :) :) :)
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Actors act. That's their job, to step outside of themselves and become the character that was created by someone else. It's as simple as that.
That pretty much what I said. I was hoping to find a problem with the logic but I can't. Actors reciting lines is new to drum corps so some people are having a problem with it. Those people need to get over it. I just wish the presentation wasn't so Country Bear Jamboree because the poor presentation may actually end up being a roadblock to further innovation in this area.
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I've been trying to find a counter to the "they're just actors reciting their lines" argument. It does seem ironic that they are reciting scripted lines that have a theme of choice but hey they are actors. There are times when actors reciting lines doesn't work. Like if Robert Downey jr. was playing the role of a straight laced cop with a serious anti-drug message you would probably go "huh?" but for various reasons that doesn't apply here. Actors giving speeches is new to dc and some people are having a hard time with the concept. My only problem with it is that it seems so Disney stage show cheesy as opposed to maybe a cool Laurie Anderson performance art type thing that it could be if done right. I'm sure someone will get it right if they have the courage to keep trying.
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I'd like to see some more Picasso-inspired forms in the drill. I think that'd really sell the show more as a "Picasso" show as opposed to a "Red 2007" show...
I was thinking that too. His weeping women and monster period stuff could easily be done in a line drawing that would lend itself well to a form on the field. That would include both his art and his personal life in the show.
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Regarding the Cadets narration:
Their tone quality, expression, etc. is just as important and perhaps more important than the hornline playing to the end of a phrase or a drumline attacking together. The little things will be the difference from a convincing piece of music (like "Lincoln Portrait") and something that is unconvincing.That's it for me too. Has anyone mentioned the "quality" of the voices doing the narration? The narrators are not quite James Earl Jones or John Facenda. They are not in the same league quality-wise as their horn and drum lines. For me the narration brings the otherwise excellent show down a notch or two.
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Forcing people to be patriotic by showing respect to something or someone doesn't quite seem like a general tenant of "Freedom".
If people don't like the behaviour of others then bite your tongue and live with your personal opinion in silence.
If you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all.
I do take my hat off and cover my heart because I choose to do so. However, we are not required to do anything in the United States.
The U.S. society has lost touch with civility in general, and preaching your belief structure to others out of some inner feeling of propriety, patriotism, or proper etiquette is not socially correct.
Diversity will live on only if Freedom is protected for all.
Well put. I deal with these my way or the highway/America love it or leave it types everyday. They aren't helping their cause.
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My last show, after marching for 10 years, was Boonton Nationals :) back in 1979.
1. Crossmen 82.15
2. Meadowlarks 74.90
3. Garfield 73.15
4. Patriots 52.05
I took a few years off (23?) before marching again for a few years with the SF Renegades.
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Free Bones Tee shirt to the first person who remembers the corps that used to use that low horn carriage.
No Xmen alumni allowed to enter this contest since you all own every new Bones Tee this year. :)
That's who we got it from back in the late 70s. I think in 1979 Tony Smith brought that with him from Boston.
Oops. I should have read Doug's message. Sorry. Hey Doug how you doing?
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In that show, we were the only corps from Delaware County, but some of the other corps were within 100 miles, some farther away. It was the Eastern States Circuit, not the whole of the Eastern US, if I didn't make that clear.
I think Fran Haring marched with Sacred Heart Crusaders.
Of course the members from Blue Rock and Bracken had their Social Security Benefits to help them out. :P
I thought the Crossmen originally started from Newtown Square and practiced in Ridley. Not so?
Wow. I marched in that show with Bracken when I was 10. Man am I old. I was also one of the group that went from Bracken to Crossmen the first year.
I think that DCI Hall of Famers Jim Prime and Donny Van Doren marched in the Chessmen back then.
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um, no. did i say that anywhere? all i said was it's easy to see why the other forums were not also closed, as they are VERY different places than CE.
seriously, it wasn't that difficult.... i'm a preschool teacher over the summer, my summer vocabulary is not that hard to comprehend. go back and read it again in context with the post i was replying to.
hehehe. yeah. thanks for proving my point. I guess you would exclude yourself from those that are above personal attacks?
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those forums aren't quite as cut-throat and haven't had the problems that CE has had for the past years (based solely on observations... but i've been around for quite a while.)
So then you believe the reason given for closing CE isn't the real reason?
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Can someone explain how these two statements are consistent?
would be better served by leaving those discussions to more specialized sites and instead concentrating more fully on the drum corps-related news, forums and other services that have made us the largest and most active independent drum corps site on the internet.Our remaining Off-Topic discussion forums will remain open, pending any changes to the time and resources required to maintain them.Are the other Off-Topic forums more drum corps related than CE?
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Well, I very seriously doubt the mods here have closed it down for "a select few". I think there were plenty of sacred cows to go around. Thee were plenty people all over the place protecting their sacred cows, while spearing others. THAT is what probably contributed to the closure of this place.
PS: when I was a mod here, there were INFINITELY more reports from one side of the political spectrum than the other.... so you'd be suprised who had the "thick skin" and who didn't.
I guess you're assuming that I felt that all the whiners were on one side? Nope. And as far as protecting your cows - well it's one thing to argue and backup your point it's quite another to go off and whine to the mods. So my totally uninformed , as always, opinion is that a few very vocal whiners could have made this place too much of a headache to be worth it.
Stanford Showdown
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I loved BDs show. Maybe it's not DC as we know it. Who cares. The more I think about the more it seems that maybe they aren't trying to play the same game as everyone else.