BigDale Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Thank god there's still DCA!!! and you must be very new to the activity....DCA will follow, they are always just a few steps behind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaasse Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Is there a source that mentions when this rule change takes effect? Typically rule changes are implemented the year after, which is why I ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaasse Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Word is Cavaliers were a no; wondering who else voted against it. I've heard Pioneer and Oregon Crusaders. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon8 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Trombones, French Horns and Sousaphones legal? What's next, this?(The xylophone and drum set sure look field legal to me, although there are would be some slight ah, environmental difficulties. Then again, maybe this could be what it takes to make DCI a year round event!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Bizarre. I was pretty shocked that Madison proposed it, and I'm even more shocked that there was a majority in favor of it.. The people that once said that trombones will never find their way into DCI competition for a host of provided reasons, are pretty much the same people telling us that the woodwinds will never find their way into DCI competittion for a host of provided reasons. If one can't sense where this is all headed by now, then I'm not sure what they are thinking anymore. Edited February 9, 2014 by BRASSO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBud Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 GOOD LUCK to DCI (Drum Corps International) as they embark on a new brass rule for 2014: ALL BRASS INSTRUMENTS are NOW LEGAL! (Sousaphones, F Horns, Trombones, etc.) As an old-timer, I do admit, I miss the "traditions" of old time drum corps. I also miss the "tradition" of when corps actually competed, not for a score, but because who they were. I miss the retreats, when corps showed respect towards each other in public, and not just on a phone from show to show, and corps played "their" corps song to honor the winners. To the INNOVATORS, of the new DCI, all i can say is: KEEP IT GOING MAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 and you must be very new to the activity....DCA will follow, they are always just a few steps behind Yup!!! Soon after DCA allowed amping the pit, the Kilts ran right out and acquired a whole new system. Something to sit back and listen to; while polishing our G horns. Thank God we were able to expand our budget to acquire the needed equipment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4ny7KivzA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelloMatt Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 So the kind of show OC had last year? Or ECJ in 2005? Precisely what I was referring to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Beginning this year, Trombones, French horns and other brass instruments may now be used without any penalty or hesitation. When the measure passed for the utilization approval for " all brass instruments " it naturally also includes the inevitable potential use of REAL tubas... you know, the ones the marching bands utilize that go around your waist. not those passe much smaller over the shoulder Contra Bass thingys the Drum Corps have utilized since 1961. These REAL Tubas will be a good compliment for the trombones too... then that progressive instrumentation that begins with the letter " W " completes the transition. But... lets be clear here, just because these units will have , trombones, sousaphones, french horns, tubas, trumpets, flutes, saxophones, etc soon it STILL will be a " Drum Corps " no matter what others might think. Edited February 9, 2014 by BRASSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bsader Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Shorty, dinosaurs are extinct as in no longer in existence. I can only hope that this was an attempt on your part to be clever or perhaps even subversive. Subtle? Clueless? I suppose I could take offense but I think I'll choose to be amused. You get what I'm alluding to don't you? Edited February 12, 2014 by Bsader 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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