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i say:

10 snares (BUT, they hafta be clean, if not, cut em one by one), 6 tenors, 5 or 6 basses, 5 cyms

28 trumpets, 18 mellos, 28 bari/euphs, 18 contras

5 pit

30 guard

2 drum majors

and one dude playing cowbell in the back

someone add that up for me

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i say:

10 snares (BUT, they hafta be clean, if not, cut em one by one), 6 tenors, 5 or 6 basses, 5 cyms

28 trumpets, 18 mellos, 28 bari/euphs, 18 contras

5 pit

30 guard

2 drum majors

and one dude playing cowbell in the back

someone add that up for me

If you go with 5 basses that would be 156 people. A little too big.

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1 bass drum

1 cowbell

133 contras

Please just give me the DCI Championship Trophy now to save time.

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I'm waiting for the marching French horn to make a comeback. It's an entirely new voice to the hornline that doubles as lead Bari or rip snorting horn. I miss the gurth and girgle (at times). That should bring the number back up to 72 horns .... which was done many many times. I think 15 ppl in a pit is a bit of overkill. I could understand it when it wasn't amped but cmon! 24-28 guard used to be an acceptable number. I could have sworn I saw some corps marching 40 in the past few years. And you wonder why POWER is lacking.

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I don't know, I think it would seriously work. I mean, corps don't need to wait for the colorguard to come back from WGI. Also with all these amps that are now around, the number in the pit need not be large anymore.

As for '86 Garfield, the reason, IMO, why it didn't work was the guard was not used as the third section but as an extention of the horns and percussion.

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Give me:

105 Brass

30 - Sopranos

20 - Altos

30 - Baritones/Euphs

20 - Contras

7 snares

5 tenors

6 bass

12 pit

BRILLIANT!

(yes - that leaves ZERO for guard)

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Ummmm - '86 Cadets anyone? 84 horns, 12 guard - didn't really work (went back to 28 guard the year after).

I say 30 horns & 60 guard :P

Later,

Mike

Well,

Judging by the performances of many guards as of late, I would love to see what kind of train wreck this would cause. <**>

^0^ Maybe we could just call the activity Guard and Drum Band, GBD-thats great, I love it!

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