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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLet's have a DU Lounge Parade, What instrument would you play? Me ---flute. Please pick one you would like to play.
FakeNoose
(36,066 posts)The only musical instrument I can play is a piano, due to endless lessons in my girlhood. However pianos don't lend themselves to parade marching, so I guess a glockenspiel is the next best thing.
debm55
(39,142 posts)shrike3
(5,370 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3catwoman3
(25,771 posts)When I was in the marching band in high school, (65-69) there were no music holders for flutes and piccolos, so we had to memorize everything.
there werent many of us in the marching band, so I think we were only in existence for 2 seasons, or maybe only one.
debm55
(39,142 posts)3catwoman3
(25,771 posts)We will have to play Starts and Stripes Forever so I can do the fantastically fun piccolo part. I can still hu it in my head.
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(39,142 posts)rurallib
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(39,142 posts)Walleye
(36,548 posts)I played violin in the high school orchestra
debm55
(39,142 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 27, 2023, 04:53 PM - Edit history (2)
sdfernando
(5,450 posts)marching orchestra! Violins & Violas are easy but they had these weird rolling contraptions for the Cellos and Basses. It is a site I will never forget.....its also a sound I will never forget!
debm55
(39,142 posts)Paladin
(29,020 posts)Used to know how to play one, and pretty well, at that. Just give me a little practice time, to get my lip back.
stopdiggin
(13,061 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)Brother Buzz
(38,062 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)LoisB
(9,032 posts)sdfernando
(5,450 posts)I also play piccolo, and any of the saxes, plus a little clarinet. Take your pick as to what is needed.
debm55
(39,142 posts)Coventina
(28,014 posts)I could also do a little recorder.
My dream is slide trombone.
debm55
(39,142 posts)Ocelot II
(121,648 posts)Otherwise, bagpipes.
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(39,142 posts)doc03
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(39,142 posts)LakeArenal
(29,869 posts)Known as a Jew's Harp for the last few hundred years in European cultures, this version is commonly thought of as a distortion of jaw or from the Old English word for the instrument gewgaw. There is little evidence connecting this specific instrument to the jewish people, but the name stuck for hundreds of years.Jul 2, 2019
https://www.archaicroots.com the-...
The Jaw Harp (jew's harp or mouth harp) - Archaic Roots
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(39,142 posts)LakeArenal
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(39,142 posts)Polly Hennessey
(7,551 posts)I play a mean version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
Its all my mothers fault. 😇
debm55
(39,142 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 27, 2023, 08:46 PM - Edit history (1)
thatcrowwoman
(1,230 posts)Im no majorette, but I used to could do some fancy baton twirling and flourishing.
Alas, I no longer have the white patent leather gogo boots.
Do we get those OG band hats with the big feathery bit on top?
Being DU, I bet we dont have uniforms, but do we have colors?
Blue, right?!
🕊🩵💫🎶thatcrowwoman
debm55
(39,142 posts)thatcrowwoman
(1,230 posts)As my brother the once-upon-a-drummer would say, To the world!
Dont know if that one was just our marching band or if its widely known.
Any rattlers in the house?
🕊🩵💫🎶thatcrowwoman
debm55
(39,142 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(10,025 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)Emile
(31,010 posts)did.
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(39,142 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)like I did in my Kindergarten Band.
debm55
(39,142 posts)Cartoonist
(7,560 posts)Or comb
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(39,142 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,088 posts)Somebody gotta do it, always need more! Right?
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(39,142 posts)Old Crank
(5,020 posts)Watched a young woman in the Stanford pep band playing an upside down double kitchen sink. Pretty cool.
During a Chinese New Year's parade another woman in the band played Tuba, while riding a unicycle.
Me? I can play records. Zero musical abilities.
debm55
(39,142 posts)Old Crank
(5,020 posts)Like differently tuned cowbells.
BOSSHOG
(40,391 posts)every Parade needs a washboard. Has anyone ever caught a washboard player missing a beat?
debm55
(39,142 posts)BOSSHOG
(40,391 posts)The Gods will be pleased.
cornball 24
(1,514 posts)My favorite! If only......!
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(39,142 posts)LudwigPastorius
(11,162 posts)I did my time in high school.
Four years of 6:30AM practice on an asphalt "field" carrying a heavy hunk of brass will cure you of any rose-colored, The Music Man illusions of the fun of marching band.
(Fortunately, when I got to college, I didn't have to march to get a music degree.)
debm55
(39,142 posts)what say you???
LudwigPastorius
(11,162 posts)Niagara
(9,942 posts)I'll play the kazoo in our DU Lounge Parade.
debm55
(39,142 posts)Niagara
(9,942 posts)I'm just taking the migraine meds before we start the noisy parade to prevent the migraine from happening.
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(39,142 posts)Niagara
(9,942 posts)marble falls
(62,556 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)IcyPeas
(22,809 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)Harker
(15,247 posts)I'd be willing to learn on the job!
You'd best make certain that the insurance is paid up, though.
debm55
(39,142 posts)you took from the island of the misfit toys, did you.
underpants
(187,585 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)underpants
(187,585 posts)Im going to a taco salad lunch right now.
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(39,142 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,691 posts)P-bass!
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(39,142 posts)Glorfindel
(9,978 posts)Actually, I don't have a musical bone in my body, but I was pretty good at marching in the Army.
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(39,142 posts)moonshinegnomie
(2,926 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)MiHale
(10,933 posts)With a very long lasting battery or a really long extension cord.
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(39,142 posts)MiHale
(10,933 posts)sanatanadharma
(4,074 posts)The drum, added to the percussion section, comes with a half-dozen marching, singing, dancing, chanting devotees in saris and dhotis.
A good parade is participatory without an audience; and obviously rain-free.
All join in!
debm55
(39,142 posts)TygrBright
(20,987 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)zeusdogmom
(1,057 posts)Just got a new box of reeds for Christmas so I am good to go. Love marching band!
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(39,142 posts)Bayard
(24,145 posts)But, I haven't played since grade school. I only do, "Three Blind Mice."
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(39,142 posts)Elessar Zappa
(16,173 posts)Id really love to learn to play the saxophone.
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(39,142 posts)Elessar Zappa
(16,173 posts)gibraltar72
(7,629 posts)debm55
(39,142 posts)sakabatou
(43,314 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,836 posts)I played piano back in the day so I can read music. A little
Big Question:
Who is going to dot the "I" ??
ProfessorGAC
(70,811 posts)Whatever someone else doesn't want. A marching snare sound fun, though.