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- From: ddm@wpi.WPI.EDU (David D Marshall)
- Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
- Subject: Re: Drum Corps Alias?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:06:29 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- In article <92321.130828MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> <MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >I can understand a visual specialist wanting to get rid of the cymbal line.
- >They usually do clutter up the appearance of a battery section. If you look
- >at lines who don't march cymbals (e.g. Phantom, Cavies, Star) the battery
- >looks *cleaner* (for lack of a better word) simply because everyone has
- >drums on. A few visual guys I have talked to feel this way.
- >
- >This however, doesn't change my mind about SCV....THE top cymbal line. It
- >is also a tradition with the corps, so I feel it should remain a part of the
- >drumline. Musically, I do feel they are *expendable*, though, with the
- >advent of the pit.
-
- I understand what you are saying about a cymbal line being "expendable", but
- there are some very neat effects that the pit may not be able to reproduce.
-
- >However, if Krescecki (sp?) wants to downsize the rest of the battery, he
- >may have a mutiny on his hands.
-
- He already has a mini-mutiny on his hands from what I hear.
-
- >Mike Hughes
-
- --David
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