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Re: Whit Friday

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Subject: Re: Whit Friday
From: Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 01:46:04 +0100
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>Good.  I'll hear you at Dobcross.  A word of advice: forget the kit - 
>bands don't normally use any percussion in the contest march and the idea 
>of loading and unloading a drum kit six or seven (or eight...) times 
>and carrying it to the place where you play (which isn't where the coach 
>will drop you) sounds like my idea of a nightmare.  Some bands don't 
>even use a bass drum for the 'marching' march, to save time loading and 
>unloading.
>
>This isn't a dig at percussionists - some of my best friends (and my 
>wife!) are percussionists - but the idea of taking a kit on the Whit 
>Friday tour must count as a definition of madness.

Bands aren't actually allowed to use percussion in the contest march, so
it's definitely not worth it.  You couldn't play drums there even if you
didn't mind loading and unloading for every contest!

Best wishes,
-- 
Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.


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