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DavebytheSea wrote:Thanks Elouise - obvious answer that! Trouble is, for one who has not yet found his way around, the bandmaster's whereabouts may be something of a mystery and there may not be time for a full-scale hunt during induction week! I expect he will suss it out ok, I was just trying toi get some of the reconnaissance done first.
I was just using the email address Terry had written to me by, a few months back.
I thought that might have happened - for some reason ch emails (like my Dad's) seem to want you t reply to ...@school.mail - which is their internal address!
Does the school still enforce the Unwritten (as far as I understand) rule that you need to be in certain boarding houses to play certain drums?
When I moved to Th A on my UF from MaB I took up Bass Drum cause you had to be in ThA to play it. Ma A was for Tenor drum and Mid A was drum majors. i think it was Ba B that did cymbals, but it could have been Ba A.
I suspect that this might have changed, what with the outlawing of tradition and all...
Graham Slater
Maine B 1990 - 1993, Thorn A 1993 -1997
Although I played trombone, (60 - 66), I have just been to Speech Day for the first time since 66, and took a video of the band to show my local village band.
As such, I noticed the Drum Majors and their movements semed very similar to those of my day, with the exception that I cannot remember the one where they pass the mace behind their backs before saluting. I was always busy when they did that.
Mid A always had the Drum Majors, is that still the case?
Barnes B always had the bass drum, which is obviously no longer true,
Lamb B had the tenor drums, and according to a tenor drummer of 1949 vintage, who was with me at the time, little has changed.
Still extremely impressive.
In my time in MidA I remember everyone being very proud of the Drum Major tradition - even those, like me, who really wouldn't have known how to even hold the mace. There was one time when there was an exception to this rule with a Drum Major from LB.
In my time (around 1976 I reckon) we had a drum major called Chris Potts whom we believed was the first person ever to successfully attempt a "double toss" (two complete 360 deg revolutions in the air) on parade.
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James Bishop LHA / MidA 72-78
JamesF35 wrote:In my time (around 1976 I reckon) we had a drum major called Chris Potts whom we believed was the first person ever to successfully attempt a "double toss" (two complete 360 deg revolutions in the air) on parade.
On my juniors, JED's son (I'm sure some one will remind me of his name...) was the head drum major and I'm pretty sure he could do a triple!! he really was fantastic at chucking that thing
His name was Edward/Ed, and I've not idea about his tossing capabilities.....
J
Julian Taylor-Gadd
Leigh Hunt 1985-1992
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I remember one Retreat (think it was David Elliott's last one) where the drum majors threw their maces to each other all at the same time, that was impressive. Think it was meant to be symbolic of handing things on to the next 'generation'. Or something!
Got that Retreat on video, as well as Elliott's last show band concert. Happy days.
