arabica Posted January 28 Posted January 28 14 hours ago, ranintothedoor said: Brass + Flute = one of my favorite combos... especially with some warm low brass open fifths and low notes on a properly amped flute with great tone... c'mon BK! I’m intrigued. Do you have any recommended listening for something like this? 2 Quote
frachel Posted January 28 Posted January 28 How many years until we just have an orchestra sitting on the field with guard doing work behind them? I don't care about original instrumentation of the music. If I wanted to hear that I'd go hear the original, played in in the right setting with the right instrumentation. 2 1 Quote
cixelsyd Posted January 28 Posted January 28 21 hours ago, Lance said: i loathe it, but the good news is that I still think it'll be impractical to march entire sections of woodwinds. good reeds are $3 apiece or more nowadays and you're lucky to get 3 good reeds in a box of 10...can maybe stretch that to 4 or 5 if you have somebody who's good with sandpaper and clipper. good clarinet players aren't going to want to play on composite any more than good arrangers would want to hear their work sounding nasty with those instruments. and maintaining springs, screws, and pads on ww is quite a bit more expensive than brass maintenance. None of what you said in this quote matters to the powers-that-be in DCI. And if you doubt that, consider how many times we wait 10 minutes while a corps, otherwise ready to start their show, instead struggles to troubleshoot their impractical, costly, maintenance-intensive amplification & electronics system. (Even in 2025, with over 20 years of experience with its implementation.) Quote
wolfgang Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 43 minutes ago, cixelsyd said: And if you doubt that, consider how many times we wait 10 minutes while a corps, otherwise ready to start their show, instead struggles to troubleshoot their impractical, costly, maintenance-intensive amplification & electronics system. (Even in 2025, with over 20 years of experience with its implementation.) I think penalties should be assigned. At some point, someone needs to be the adult in the room and start the show. The designers elected to use these. If they work, great. If they don't, either start the show without them so that the corps exits the field by the appropriate time, or get a penalty of X for every X seconds they're not off the field after the approprate time. 1 Quote
Lance Posted January 28 Posted January 28 (edited) 13 hours ago, arabica said: I’m intrigued. Do you have any recommended listening for something like this? On Horner's Star Trek II soundtrack, one of the cues has full minute of a piccolo/baritone duet playing exactly the same thing 2 octaves apart. It sounds really weird but really cool. Edited January 28 by Lance badly speling n gramer 3 2 Quote
perc2100 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 23 hours ago, KVG_DC said: Right. I marched in N. Indiana band with a tenor sax. It was a regular thing to have to do major repairs after marching season. Many of us had 'marching horns' and 'concert/jazz' horns if we were top line players. We'd be tempted to pull out the good instruments for state finals but then the notion of a Selmer Mark VII on the truck, carried gingerly over the large rock lot of fallen twisted ankles outside of the Hoosier Dome and the weather exposure of winter before getting into the dome were 'uh no...I'll use the horn that's been outside all season.' And the number of extra reeds we had to share around the section at EVERY show. And a box of 10 was still fairly reasonable at $9.95 for the cheaper kinds. Reeds now are way more expensive. Yeah even in the 'as close to perfect weather as it likely gets' land where I teach in Southern CA, we still have plenty of ww students who have 'student model' marching band instruments with better concert/jazz season instruments the rest of the year. It's always fascinating sitting in front of the bands those first couple of concert band classes after marching season: "ah yes: THAT is what wood clarinets, better quality flutes and saxes sound like 😊" 2 Quote
OldCorpsGuy Posted January 29 Posted January 29 Yep. 20 years in the Army as a clarinetist after Corps and we had indoor and outdoor horns. Still play some and I have indoor and outdoor concert clarinets. Quote
Jeff Ream Posted January 29 Posted January 29 19 hours ago, frachel said: How many years until we just have an orchestra sitting on the field with guard doing work behind them? I don't care about original instrumentation of the music. If I wanted to hear that I'd go hear the original, played in in the right setting with the right instrumentation. i agree....and don't. hearing things in drum corps led me to finding the original, sometimes even seeing it performed live in the right setting with the right instrumentation. and to this day, my favorite version of Adagio For Strings played anywhere was an Open Class percussion finalist last year 1 Quote
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