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Poll: Hobbyists
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:47 am
by elimia
Just curious what are the venues most hobbyists are playing in.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:33 pm
by Dan Schultz
It would have been nice if we could have listed all of them in order of importance. My first love is the community band I founded five years ago. However, I play with three other amateur groups and one professional group.
http://www.olddamband.com
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:56 pm
by Chuck(G)
Where's "brass band" in your list?
I see "community band", but to me that implies a standard concert band. with (shudder) saxophones and oboes...
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:16 pm
by dmmorris
I play nearly every Sunday in a Church Praise Band, so I picked that one as my first (only) choice. I also do avant-garde chamber stuff w/ mixed instrumentation, honky-tonk-ol'-timey-tunes w/ piano & percussion, and also low-brass quartet stuff.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:48 pm
by DLThomas
Besides the tuba/euph ensemble (Continental Divide Tuba Society), I'm in a dance band which plays 1920's - 30's - 40's charts, mostly swing, with a few from the 50's - 60's. Our community band plays only during the summer -- I try to participate if no stress-relief seminars (fly-fishing) are scheduled.
Dave T.
Besson 983
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:09 am
by Bandmaster
You also left off Senior Drum & Bugle Corps. I play in a local community band, a senior corps and my college's alumni band at the moment. So another listing for "Multiple Groups" would have been a help.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:01 pm
by MaryAnn
Not in your poll:
1. orchestra (horn)
2. brass band (tuba)
3. quintet (tuba)
In the poll:
4. very occasionally community band (cornet)
MA
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:38 pm
by kegmcnabb
Mainly I play tuba in the following...
Peninsula Symphonic Band (community)
Vespus Marimba Band (Latin, Carribean, jazz, and rock)
The Skumbaag Show (Heavy Metal Vaudeville)
In addition I do a lot of pit (theatre) stuff and am working with a guitarist/vocalist.
I also play at home with my wife on piano, daughter on alto sax, and my son on baritone. This may be the most fun of all. Our own little down-home family band.