melligene Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I couldn't wait to get my "decibel level volume device" out after reading this ..... fyi, I was in the electronics business for 17 years of my career. I got the mellophone in F to play 3db louder than my G...... success ..... now I gotta get the tuner and see if I'm in the ballpark ..... NO, never was in Bergholtz Band ....... just St Johnsburg Fire Co Drum Corps ...... what a START !!!!! Doug-less / alias-PITA ..... oh Donny your so funny !!! Have you checked it against Donny's "Vibrometer" yet...? b**bs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crudirect1 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Don't even get him started on the V word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I couldn't wait to get my "decibel level volume device" out after reading this ..... fyi, I was in the electronics business for 17 years of my career. I got the mellophone in F to play 3db louder than my G...... success ..... now I gotta get the tuner and see if I'm in the ballpark ..... NO, never was in Bergholtz Band ....... just St Johnsburg Fire Co Drum Corps ...... what a START !!!!! Doug-less / alias-PITA ..... oh Donny your so funny !!! When Doug was a youngun...the Bergholz band was a youth band that was run by the best band director I know, Ed Payton! Ed was my junior high teacher and an amazing educator. Later, the Bergholz band became a German band and an award winning band as well. St. Johnsburg Blue Sabres....Sledge's corps and the only corps I know that played "Stairway to Heaven" and Theme of Philadelphia, MFSB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Drum Corps Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 You Mean "SOUL TRAIN"...??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellodoug1 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 b**bs When Doug was a youngun...the Bergholz band was a youth band that was run by the best band director I know, Ed Payton! Ed was my junior high teacher and an amazing educator. Later, the Bergholz band became a German band and an award winning band as well.St. Johnsburg Blue Sabres....Sledge's corps and the only corps I know that played "Stairway to Heaven" and Theme of Philadelphia, MFSB. When I was in St Johnsburg .... they weren't called the Blue Sabers. I started in 1959, they were a senior fire co dc with red shirts and yellow ties....yuk. The tunes @ that time were old favorites....Grand Old Flag ; Michigan Victors March ; Coast Guard ; Round and Round ; Limbo Rock ; ect ect. 3 of us including myself, pushed for new uni's. We then changed to a powder blue top/gold ascot/ & dark blue castopo hats. It was still a Sr corps. I stayed till 1964. The Sr corps folded for a couple years. It was revived as a JR corps by my Dad's closest friend Bob Schuster and his wife Midge both x-marines. Thus, the birth of the Blue Sabers ...... they kept the color the 3 of us started .....and dropped the glockenspiels..........THE HISTORY of St Johnsburg DC.....for anyone who cares. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcg155 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Doug, I wish you guys the best. It was a blast playing with you guys and I'll be watching/listening. Mark - Director White Sabers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsman1 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Doug, As a charter member of the "Ghost Riders" and a long time advocate of "real drum corps"I dissapointed to hear that another drum corps has taken the steps to becoming a TRUMPET BAND. The G and old C bugle was the one thing that always made our organizations unique as drun and bugle corps. Enough said about this but I wish you Doug and all my Ghost Rider friends the best of luck in the coming year and maybe I can get to hear you in the coming year Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 You Mean "SOUL TRAIN"...??? YES that's it!!! Did Sledge write that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Doug, As a charter member of the "Ghost Riders" and a long time advocate of "real drum corps"I dissapointed to hear that another drum corps has taken the steps to becoming a TRUMPET BAND. The G and old C bugle was the one thing that always made our organizations unique as drun and bugle corps. Enough said about this but I wish you Doug and all my Ghost Rider friends the best of luck in the coming year and maybe I can get to hear you in the coming year Jerry Kingsman..."real drum and bugle corps" didn't even have valves in the day. The key of the instrument DOESN'T MATTER! Is a real true trumpet only a Bb trumpet? NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bariforhire Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Key of G, or Bb, it's all good. A lot of folks complained when we went to valve-rotory. I bet most of you wouldn't be able to tell which were being played just by listening. As a GR Alumnus, I wish you well in the future. Benny Ghostriders 97-04 2000 DCA Champions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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