Fran Haring Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 A couple of DCA corps... Hawthorne Caballeros and Rhode Island Matadors... used steel drums in their shows for at least one season in the mid-1970s. They sounded a lot better in person than they do on the recordings of that period. On one of the recordings, the drums almost sound like tin cans. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 We used steel drums in the Crossmen during the drum solo in '86. I played one of them. Street Dancin never got enough credit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 A couple of DCA corps... Hawthorne Caballeros and Rhode Island Matadors... used steel drums in their shows for at least one season in the mid-1970s. They sounded a lot better in person than they do on the recordings of that period. On one of the recordings, the drums almost sound like tin cans. LOL. Westshore in 91 and 92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cf144 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Street Dancin never got enough credit Thurston at his best. We also had a set of timbales that he tuned so low that the heads were almost wrinkled. He dubbed them the "floppy drums". I have one of the floppy drum heads hanging in my study at home. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 Both Hawthorne, NJ corps have/had marched timbales on the field for many seasons. They weren't considered special instruments, even in the pre-DCI era of Am. Legion drum corps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadevilina Crown Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) Too lazy to look through the thread now, so I'm unsure if this has been mentioned yet. A friend who was auditioning for Boston Crusaders on mellophone (and was in the corps last year) told me a few months ago that all auditioning mellophone players had to audition on French horn. Thoughts? Edited March 15, 2015 by Cadevilina Crown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Too lazy to look through the thread now, so I'm unsure if this has been mentioned yet. A friend who was auditioning for Boston Crusaders on mellophone (and was in the corps last year) told me a few months ago that all auditioning mellophone players had to audition on French horn. Thoughts? No idea. Maybe they have music the brass folks want to use FH for and need to find out which mello mm sound good on one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllianaLancerContra Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Too lazy to look through the thread now, so I'm unsure if this has been mentioned yet. A friend who was auditioning for Boston Crusaders on mellophone (and was in the corps last year) told me a few months ago that all auditioning mellophone players had to audition on French horn. Thoughts? Marching French Horn or the ones that point the wrong direction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadevilina Crown Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Marching French Horn or the ones that point the wrong direction?The latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 No idea. Maybe they have music the brass folks want to use FH for and need to find out which mello mm sound good on one. For the record.... FH here stands for French horns. They will not, under any circumstances, be using me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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