Lancerlady Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I was extremely proud to be a good french horn player that could march. It's a great skill. And had a beautiful sound.Our big thing in my corps was to not play so loud on them that we sounded like bleating goats. Me too, and that was my first year of marching drum corps. I was 16..it does take great skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abgiles Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Phil Olds, Mel Canales, Jim Ott, Stanley Knaub, Scott Pierson, Dan Smith, Mike Hamlin, Steve Fisher and Eric Unruh ok, i never use this icon, but . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abgiles Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 great article by michael boo from last year: http://www.dci.org/news/news.cfm?news_id=7...35-2f6ebde71416 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leland Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 My ageout year saw a small hornline -- 21 horns or so. One other contra player besides me, also an ageout. Our midhorns ended up with two mellos and six (yes, 6!) French horns. What a sound. Seriously, I think that French horns are the special ingredient that's been missing from DCI lines over the past dozen years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 GR loved to write for the French horn and mellophone. Maybe it was because he was a French horn player himself. Listen to SCV’s 74 opener. We were also blessed to have some great players in those sections. Phil Olds, Mel Canales, Jim Ott, Stanley Knaub, Scott Pierson, Dan Smith, Mike Hamlin, Steve Fisher and Eric Unruh were some of the guys I marched with, all great players. add Jim Janda and Gerry Lotte to this list ... and why I remember this who knows but the french horns had a song that was sung to the tune of the "Work" song the Seven Dwarves sang in Snow White we poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke we poke the whole day through we poke, poke, poke, poike, poke, poke, poke it's what we like to do our hands are quick, our eyes are keen, our nimble fingers fly if anybody hassles us we poke them in the eye and there were MANY verses I just don't remember them (even though they were sung incessantly in the back of Bus 3 all through the summer of 74) btw ... french horns are alive and well in the Renegades B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsBusDriver Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 add Jim Janda and Gerry Lotte to this list ... and why I remember this who knows but the french horns had a song that was sung to the tune of the "Work" song the Seven Dwarves sang in Snow Whitewe poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke we poke the whole day through we poke, poke, poke, poike, poke, poke, poke it's what we like to do our hands are quick, our eyes are keen, our nimble fingers fly if anybody hassles us we poke them in the eye and there were MANY verses I just don't remember them (even though they were sung incessantly in the back of Bus 3 all through the summer of 74) btw ... french horns are alive and well in the Renegades B) Oh my gosh JoJo, I remember that now. Considering I was "going" with one of those French Horn players then , I should remember the words. However, the operative words here are "sung incessantly" and all we could do was groan and let the words fly in one ear and out the other. Thanks for the memory. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLHilberg Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Freelancers did away with the french horns when we got the three valve altos and mellos in 1990. Ken H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoch003 Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Freelancers did away with the french horns when we got the three valve altos and mellos in 1990. Ken H. OUCH! "Did away with french horns" Yeah, see? We whacked em, good, see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfallon Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) 1) Not soon enough... 2) Because no one but Conn ever built one that played... Edited September 20, 2006 by rayfallon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoch003 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 OUCH! OUT, Bad bad Ray! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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