This girl sure has a lot on her chest!
Sep 25, 2016 12:05:27 #
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Sep 25, 2016 13:14:15 #
Now thats what I call a balancing act???????????????????
tainkc wrote:
The party's over.
Sep 25, 2016 14:04:15 #
Sep 25, 2016 14:06:03 #
GWR100 wrote:
Yeah, she is probably walking either to a bus or her parents car after being in a parade with her high school marching band. Do your high schoolers have marching bands such as we have over here?Now thats what I call a balancing act???????????????????
Sep 25, 2016 15:28:31 #
No, not marching bands, quite a lot have school orchestras or bands, and many of the kids get together and play in pop groups. that sound very 60s but I dont know what the cll them these days?
tainkc wrote:
Yeah, she is probably walking either to a bus or her parents car after being in a parade with her high school marching band. Do your high schoolers have marching bands such as we have over here?
Sep 25, 2016 15:53:52 #
GWR100 wrote:
Interesting. Thanks!No, not marching bands, quite a lot have school orchestras or bands, and many of the kids get together and play in pop groups. that sound very 60s but I dont know what the cll them these days?
Sep 25, 2016 16:47:49 #
tainkc wrote:
The party's over.
Jr High I went to in York PA they had a petite female drummer in the orchestra and they needed her on the bass drum in the marching band. She couldn't carry that thing. Their solution: one of the piccolo/flute players was well over 6 foot and a lineman on the football team. They adapted a backpack to take the bass drum and she marched behind him. She had to reach up almost over her head to play. But it worked!
Sep 25, 2016 16:55:21 #
robertjerl wrote:
That would have been neat to see!Jr High I went to in York PA they had a petite female drummer in the orchestra and they needed her on the bass drum in the marching band. She couldn't carry that thing. Their solution: one of the piccolo/flute players was well over 6 foot and a lineman on the football team. They adapted a backpack to take the bass drum and she marched behind him. She had to reach up almost over her head to play. But it worked!
Sep 25, 2016 19:15:05 #
robertjerl wrote:
Jr High I went to in York PA they had a petite female drummer in the orchestra and they needed her on the bass drum in the marching band. She couldn't carry that thing. Their solution: one of the piccolo/flute players was well over 6 foot and a lineman on the football team. They adapted a backpack to take the bass drum and she marched behind him. She had to reach up almost over her head to play. But it worked!
Back when our 5'1" younger daughter was in high school, she played bass drum - in fact she had the largest of the three. Because she had played basketball the previous year, she'd participated in their strength-and-agility program, so she'd been able to press over 100 pounds, and she did carry the drum all by herself {basically looked like a walking drum}.
Sep 25, 2016 19:35:23 #
rehess wrote:
Back when our 5'1" younger daughter was in high school, she played bass drum - in fact she had the largest of the three. Because she had played basketball the previous year, she'd participated in their strength-and-agility program, so she'd been able to press over 100 pounds, and she did carry the drum all by herself {basically looked like a walking drum}.
Worst part must have been navigation. Had to orient on other players to either side.
Did you ever take a picture from the front of a drum with arms and feet?
Sep 25, 2016 19:44:30 #
robertjerl wrote:
They practiced more than the athletes did {and it showed - they did well in competitions}Worst part must have been navigation. Had to orient on other players to either side.
robertjerl wrote:
I don't think so - for family purposes we wanted to see her face.Did you ever take a picture from the front of a drum with arms and feet?
Sep 25, 2016 21:55:12 #
rehess wrote:
I don't think so - for family purposes we wanted to see her face.
I taught for Los Angeles Unified School District. Marching Band counted as both PE and Art.
My last school was constantly winning the LA Metro Area championship.
My first school had an award winning director and had so many players they had two complete bands that would do a battle of the bands before a big parade or festival. Winner marched as the school, loser marched in Army Uniforms as the JrROTC band, except for Veterans Day and Memorial Day, both bands marched as Army. You could never predict which unit would march as what, those kids fought that competition like it was a real war.
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