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Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:03 pm
by DonShirer
Two great marching bands with a shared vision...
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Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:23 pm
by jmerring
I say now, as always; marching band members are every bit the athletes as those hitting the blocks. We sousaphone players do it with 27 pounds of metal on our left shoulder.
Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:18 pm
by Dan Schultz
jmerring wrote:I say now, as always; marching band members are every bit the athletes as those hitting the blocks. We sousaphone players do it with 27 pounds of metal on our left shoulder.
Some of us have done it with 42 pounds on our shoulders. The 4V is a couple of pounds more....
Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:19 pm
by eupher61
real men use King Jumbo Monsters. with 4 valves.
Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:24 pm
by Dan Schultz
eupher61 wrote:real men use King Jumbo Monsters. with 4 valves.
Hmmm... hear that Andy and Jonathan? I think he called you guys sissies!
Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:32 pm
by TUbajohn20J
I'll stick to my 40k!!
Re: Just Like Dancing, with Sousaphones
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:25 pm
by iiipopes
The 38K I play is "only" 35 lbs. I know, I'm such a lightweight....
It reminds me of when I was in high school, marching with a souzy, field in the fall and parade in the spring and summer, and when it came time to do some of the required physical education and fitness regimen, many of the football team were quite nonplussed that scrawny me could outlift them on the leg press, and keep up with them otherwise at the other stations.