Terri Schehr Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, cixelsyd said: Any claims that woodwind players are "currently excluded" from DCI have been officially refuted... by DCI. https://www.dci.org/news/these-woodwind-players-do-drum-corps-and-so-can-you Oh, I DO love these “gotcha” moments. Thank you. Made my morning. Read the member interviews. Pure gold. I’m giddy. Edited January 5, 2020 by Terri Schehr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 45 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said: See we have a band here, Governor Livingston that uses them for pregame stuff and have successfully incorporated them into their show several times. I’ll take that over wholesale woodwinds GL has used pipes for decades. I first saw them in the early 70’s, and they had been using them before that. They were a fine band. Kearny NJ also used them at that time (the town had a large Scottish/Irish population). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seen-it-all Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, Brian Tuma said: I don’t know if this has been covered but is everyone emailing the directors and encouraging them to vote no to woodwinds? Now why would anyone want to do that?! Or contact DCI directly to seek more clarification on all these procedural issues for that matter? It's so much easier to just hop online and go round and round with the same 5 or 6 people in the Great DCP Echo Chamber. As amusing as that has been, nothing will ever get resolved here, that's for sure. Hey, maybe someone should start up one of those online petitions. Those things always work! 😝 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, seen-it-all said: Now why would anyone want to do that?! Or contact DCI directly to seek more clarification on all these procedural issues for that matter? It's so much easier to just hop online and go round and round with the same 5 or 6 people in the Great DCP Echo Chamber. As amusing as that has been, nothing will ever get resolved here, that's for sure. Hey, maybe someone should start up one of those online petitions. Those things always work! 😝 The last time we contacted DCI and corps directors was about a sex offender marching and teaching 8 years ago, we got one response and you’d probably faint if I told you who it was. That imo, is far more serious than woodwinds. I expected more than one response. So I wouldn’t waste my time. I do have one corps director on my Facebook page. That thing is on fire 🔥 with this stuff so I’m guessing he knows how I feel. Edited January 5, 2020 by Terri Schehr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cixelsyd Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 31 minutes ago, Brian Tuma said: I don’t know if this has been covered but is everyone emailing the directors and encouraging them to vote no to woodwinds? Compiling addresses now. Who is representing Phantom Regiment in the post-Valenzuela era? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soccerguy315 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 2 hours ago, cixelsyd said: Any claims that woodwind players are "currently excluded" from DCI have been officially refuted... by DCI. https://www.dci.org/news/these-woodwind-players-do-drum-corps-and-so-can-you LOL <-- woodwind player that marched DCI 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weaklefthand4ever Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said: The last time we contacted DCI and corps directors was about a sex offender marching and teaching 8 years ago, we got one response and you’d probably faint if I told you who it was. That imo, is far more serious than woodwinds. I expected more than one response. So I wouldn’t waste my time. I do have one corps director on my Facebook page. That thing is on fire 🔥 with this stuff so I’m guessing he knows how I feel. I think we beat this to death a couple of years ago again, but this is just another example of why DCI needs a team to actually handle legitimate complaints as well as monitor social media. We have multiple teams at my job that do nothing but scour the internet and reach out to customers who have an issue and would prefer to air those grievances online. They of course have that right regardless of what we have in place, but it significantly improves our service delivery and optics. And let's face it, DCI has some horrible optics. Regardless of whether the responsibility for the issue (whatever it may be,) lies with DCI or the member corps, DCI is the face to which the name is attached. Ignoring it or saying it's "not my problem" is like an agent getting angry at a customer because "they" weren't the ones who did the customer wrong. Sorry I'm grumpy.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said: I think we beat this to death a couple of years ago again, but this is just another example of why DCI needs a team to actually handle legitimate complaints as well as monitor social media. We have multiple teams at my job that do nothing but scour the internet and reach out to customers who have an issue and would prefer to air those grievances online. They of course have that right regardless of what we have in place, but it significantly improves our service delivery and optics. And let's face it, DCI has some horrible optics. Regardless of whether the responsibility for the issue (whatever it may be,) lies with DCI or the member corps, DCI is the face to which the name is attached. Ignoring it or saying it's "not my problem" is like an agent getting angry at a customer because "they" weren't the ones who did the customer wrong. Sorry I'm grumpy.... This tweet sums it up for me. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weaklefthand4ever Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, soccerguy315 said: LOL <-- woodwind player that marched DCI As was my brother. He was a 1st chair all state clarinet player who ended up marching Baritone in DCI. It can be done with talent and lots of hard work. I would, however, think it's a little harder now as the talent level just keeps escalating across all MM positions. You used to be able to get away a little bit of talent, a killer work ethic and a whole lot desire to succeed, even if you could only count to potato (such as in my case.) Just come to camp, bust your ### and don't leave until they tell you you're cut. Now, it seems these cats come out of the womb being able to move and play and high levels of skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 19 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said: This tweet sums it up for me. Chalk one up for Gadget.... gotta watch out for those vertically challenged low brass... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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