Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 230RN on September 22, 2015, 08:27:10 AM
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Looks to me like with that dancing around, these folks all had to go to the bathroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlS64b_4K8&feature=player_embedded
I hope they all made it.
I thought the group of 6 was better, despite being outnumbered.
It's kinda long, but enjoyable. (17 min)
Terry
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As a high school marching band sousaphone player (translation: big-boned middle school band french horn player without much talent or practice discipline) I can attest to the lung capacities necessary to generate so much synchronous faux flatulence.
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Friend of mine played a C tuba for some pizza joint. I heard him practicing as I walked up to his house one day. Noticed some screening over the tuba's bell, asked him about it.
Turned out, "The ^*^%ing customers keep throwing #^&@ into it. Peanuts, empty cigarette packs, plastic knives and spoons.... It's a ^*^%ing game with them. They've even got a sign up, says 'Please do not throw objects into the tuba.' I think the sign just encourages them. Or gives them the idea in the first place. ^*^%ing customers."
I thought that was pretty funny. "Yeah? well you go and ^*^%ing clean it out, then." He likened it to emptying rainwater out of a tire casing, which, as we all know, is nigh impossible without specialized methods.
Image-searching for "reflections in a tuba" yields some interesting photographs. Those brass players keep those instruments polished to a 0.00000001 microinch surface, looks like. But I didn't realize they cursed so much WRT foreign objects in their instruments.
Terry
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The Band Sergeant Major is not please with the lack of choreography skills.
Hit up YouTube for videos of Drum & Bugle Corps. Precision playing with precision choreography - most of the time.
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/marching-band-sousaphone-blooper/
stay safe.
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The Band Sergeant Major is not please with the lack of choreography skills.
Hit up YouTube for videos of Drum & Bugle Corps. Precision playing with precision choreography - most of the time.
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/marching-band-sousaphone-blooper/
stay safe.
These are the War Elephants of the force. Close order drill is not their prime requisite, but rather making the other guys piss their britches.
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These are the War Elephants of the force. Close order drill is not their prime requisite, but rather making the other guys piss their britches.
Apparently you have never witnessed a Drum & Bugle Corps competition.
Sadly, they seem to be dying out in their last strongholds - New England and NJ/eastern PA.
Go see them while you can.
stay safe.
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Apparently you have never witnessed a Drum & Bugle Corps competition.
Sadly, they seem to be dying out in their last strongholds - New England and NJ/eastern PA.
Go see them while you can.
stay safe.
Just a little gentle humor, my good sir. I am well acquainted with the precision attainable by a well-drilled corps, and how thrilling they can be to watch. =)
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Apparently you have never witnessed a Drum & Bugle Corps competition.
Sadly, they seem to be dying out in their last strongholds - New England and NJ/eastern PA.
Go see them while you can.
stay safe.
No wonder, with the problem of finding so many people combining the talents of musicianship, timing, precision drill, and dedication. The rehearsal time alone must be a bear.
Per vaskidmark's suggestion, I sampled a couple of youtubes of drum and bugle corps.
I've always found it interesting that we are so fascinated with precision human interactions like that --The Rockettes, Michael Flatley's Riverdance troupe, military drill teams, and so forth.
For me, looking back to my one and only experience in military drill*, I remember the pleasure of acting in unison with the other squad members in response to the drill instructor's commands. There's something about that.
The other thing that's interesting to me is that despite the leader showing/keeping time for the whole group, they can somehow keep the beat even with the acoustic delays. Spread out as they are over, say, a football field, or two or three blocks(?) when in a parade, the acoustic delay (call the sound velocity 370 yards per second) must be significant in some musical pieces.
All very interesting.
Terry
* I was in the "Nautical Cadets" for a while in the mid-1940s or so. Most fascinating were the dummy "Cadet Springfields" we used for the drills. But I still remember the internal pleasure, hard to describe, in acting in unison with the other cadets.