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#146440 - 06/25/07 05:01 AM 'manliest' pit instruments
hiredgoonthug Registered: 05/15/07 Loc: Ontario, California	at your school, what seem to be the pit instruments that everyone inside (and out) of the pit have respect for or would want to play? the two big ones are timpani and chimes. chimes seem to cut through the entire band, and timpani is a lot of fun to play. _________________________ Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch'Entrate www.myspace.com/esalv_ftw
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#146441 - 06/25/07 11:22 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: hiredgoonthug]
Sajre Registered: 10/06/04 Loc: Lancaster, Pennsylvania	Nothing rocks more than hitting a gong and bass at the same time. Booooomshhhh! _________________________ OAS AAS LLS
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#146442 - 06/25/07 05:03 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Sajre]
drumline_YOUKNOW Registered: 10/15/04 Loc: Persian Gulf...as of June	most manliest...hmm, definatly have to agree with sajre bass and gong. _________________________ -Vince
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#146443 - 06/25/07 07:11 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: drumline_YOUKNOW]
PanasonicYouth Registered: 05/07/07 Loc: Oxnard, CA	Triangle. _________________________ Matt Oxnard High School '06 - Pit \| '07 - Tenors, Co-Captain \| '08 - Tenors, Captain DLOFDC - Randomosity 2008 - SURREALISM
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#146444 - 06/25/07 09:54 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: PanasonicYouth]
Anonymous Unregistered	yesh! bass and gong at the same timeee! but i think timpani gets the "highest respect"
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#146445 - 06/25/07 11:31 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: ]
chstenors09 Registered: 05/13/06 Loc: Cabot, Arkansas	Personally, I think the old school marching timps deserve more respect than any other instrument.
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#146446 - 06/26/07 07:00 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: chstenors09]
snare777 blanks Registered: 05/16/07 Loc: Ft.Mitchell KY	cowbell. _________________________ Dixie Heights Marching Colonels 8th grader - Top bass (first year) 9th grader - Snare (second year) Steve Vai - “Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.”
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#146447 - 06/26/07 08:33 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: chstenors09]
CMCMystique Registered: 05/16/07 Loc: Pensacola,FL	Quote: Personally, I think the old school marching timps deserve more respect than any other instrument. Man those old school timps looked ridiculous. _________________________ WHS Cymbals 06-07 PFHS Outdoor/Indoor Cymbals 07-08. "We Are" 8th in world PSA Snare 08-09 "Circuitry" Teal Sound 09 Cymbals???
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#146448 - 06/26/07 09:08 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: CMCMystique]
ctownpit Registered: 02/17/06 Loc: Clayton North Carolina	finger cymbals YEAH!!! _________________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
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#146449 - 06/27/07 03:25 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: ctownpit]
Drum_freek Registered: 06/07/05 Loc: OK !!!!	gotta say the marimba rules our pit!!! Next to the timpani!!! _________________________ 04-05 Snare (simple gifts) 05-06 Snare (Phantom of the Opera) 06-07 Snare (Wicked) SectionLeader!!!! 07-08 Snare (Transformation) section leader - yeah i know i'm sexy - 08-09 BYU here i come!
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#146450 - 06/28/07 03:43 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
insanejin Registered: 08/02/05 Loc: irvine, ca	i thought the drumset was pretty manly, but if you want a retarded answer, the triangle is the way to go.
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#146451 - 06/28/07 01:08 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: insanejin]
asuno Registered: 05/23/05 Loc: Florida	i'd have to say the bass drum gong, something about that loud smash is just manly, that and the timpani. _________________________ 04-07 Mallets 07-08 Timpani (BOOYAH) When everyone stares at you like your crazy, rip off your shirt and scream your favorite food at the top of your lungs. That way everyone KNOWS your crazy.
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#146452 - 06/28/07 04:42 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: insanejin]
hiredgoonthug Registered: 05/15/07 Loc: Ontario, California	Quote: i thought the drumset was pretty manly, but if you want a retarded answer, the triangle is the way to go. i dont usually enjoy drumkits in pits, but i suppose it is a manly instrument. as for triangle, i think it takes a lot of courage to play! every second movement key poulan has ever written ends with a triangle hit after a measure or so. if you arent paying attention you make the band look stupid! _________________________ Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch'Entrate www.myspace.com/esalv_ftw
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#146453 - 06/30/07 05:10 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: hiredgoonthug]
insanejin Registered: 08/02/05 Loc: irvine, ca	triangles are manly only if you can march it.
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#146454 - 06/30/07 10:02 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: insanejin]
n00bpwner Registered: 03/27/07 Loc: Dublin Ohio	The marimba, although the audience has a hard time hearing it, is the coolest thing in the pit. It takes the most skill if played correctly than any other instrument in the pit. But the marimba is just next too the timps because they take snugglebunny of skill and technique as well to play correctly. _________________________ pit (I learned to enjoy the marimba) '05 pit (wanted to advance my mallet skills) '06 tenors (then wanted to try somthing new) '07 tenors (drum line section head!) '08
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#146455 - 07/01/07 08:28 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: insanejin]
PanasonicYouth Registered: 05/07/07 Loc: Oxnard, CA	Quote: triangles are manly only if you can march it. I did that for the city Christmas parade last year. No joke. My director just wanted a four measure triangle "solo" in the closer of last year's show, and we never actually played it in competition because no one could get the choke pattern right at the time. _________________________ Matt Oxnard High School '06 - Pit \| '07 - Tenors, Co-Captain \| '08 - Tenors, Captain DLOFDC - Randomosity 2008 - SURREALISM
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#146456 - 08/29/07 09:53 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
Yoda Registered: 08/27/07	Manliest is probably gong. But I respect the melodics players the most. _________________________ 2007-2008 Marching Season: 1st Bass
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#146457 - 08/30/07 10:00 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Yoda]
Shimes Registered: 06/13/07 Loc: Upstate NY	More cowbell BABY!!! _________________________ Shimes "This I believe... SHUT UP... AND PLAY THE MUSIC!!!"
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#146458 - 08/30/07 09:24 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Shimes]
Yoda Registered: 08/27/07	Quote: More cowbell BABY!!! YEAH!! One of our stand songs is Lowrider, but our 4th bass always plays the cowbell solo at the beginning. Edited by Yoda (08/30/07 09:25 PM) _________________________ 2007-2008 Marching Season: 1st Bass
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#146459 - 09/18/07 11:29 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: insanejin]
EcjMallets06 blank Registered: 07/09/07 Loc: U.S	I think a nasty timbali player beats all.... Even though i am a fan of the gong and bass _________________________ Christopher Williams
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#146460 - 09/19/07 12:29 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: n00bpwner]
MhsSenior Registered: 12/11/05 Loc: Texas	Quote: The marimba, although the audience has a hard time hearing it, is the coolest thing in the pit. It takes the most skill if played correctly than any other instrument in the pit. But the marimba is just next too the timps because they take snugglebunny of skill and technique as well to play correctly. The marimba is one of the loudest instruments in the pit not counting the electronices. A guy who can play with good technique on a marimba and are good and not ashamed of it, is something that I think is amazing. In my area of bands, you don't see many male marimba players. But when you do, the change is kind of nice. _________________________ The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. - Pierre Abelard
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#146461 - 09/19/07 01:40 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: MhsSenior]
snarepaint Registered: 06/13/03	Marimba gets my vote, just because of the proficiency level required. Now a marimba player that backs away for one sternum cracking smash? That is a man baby! _________________________ DCI, DCA, WGI, done it all in some form.
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#146462 - 09/19/07 04:18 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
TripletPsycho Registered: 05/15/07	Timpani first bass and gong a close second
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#146463 - 09/19/07 09:42 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: TripletPsycho]
Raouf Registered: 10/21/06 Loc: Virginia	this year i have to play set, because apparently im the only one that can play set (in time and w/ good technique) it the most ghetto set up, its a pair of hi hats, snare and a steve weiss china mounted on the bass drum tom mount... and the manliest part is, i have to stand up _________________________ IVA 07'
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#146464 - 09/19/07 11:34 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
ChopShop Registered: 09/05/07 Loc: Cleveland,OH	Gotta say set. _________________________ West Geauga High School '97-'98 Snare '98-'99 Center Snare '99-'01 Tenors/Percussion squad leader Current Drumset,Rudimental educator
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#146465 - 09/20/07 11:23 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: ChopShop]
MhsSenior Registered: 12/11/05 Loc: Texas	I am not a big fan on sets in front ensembles during marching season. Indoor season maybe, but full band marching season I don't like. Still sticking with the marimba. _________________________ The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. - Pierre Abelard
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#146466 - 09/21/07 03:57 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: MhsSenior]
akeith5913 Registered: 07/10/07 Loc: Northbrook, IL	The "rock pod" hands down. I would have loved to have been the guy who was in the pod with '85-'86 Devs. Coolest pit part ever. If I couldn't do that I would play vibes. I'd give anything to be a great, jammin' vibe guy. _________________________ Univ. of Ky - Tenors, '89-'91 Cavaliers - Tenors, '91-'92 Chicago Bears Drumline - Tenors, '05-'08
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#146467 - 09/21/07 04:45 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: akeith5913]
WCUPerc2012 Registered: 03/11/07 Loc: West Chester University	The guy who hits all the china and splash chokes in the Cadets 2000 show. That's the best. Aux percussion- Bass and Gong, cymbal and tom rack, brake drum, timbale, and all the other fun doodads that go on the traps stand... definitely the manliest and most fun! _________________________ Egg Harbor Township Class of 2008 (Percussion Captain, Tenors) Raiders Drum and Bugle Corps 2007-08 (Bass 4, Bass 1) West Chester University Class of 2012 (Bass 2, section leader)
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#146468 - 09/21/07 08:23 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: WCUPerc2012]
SFZ541 Registered: 01/22/06 Loc: Sanibel, FL	I think the guys thats ends up jumping around the most is the person I respect the most. It's more of a challenge to do twenty things at once than just one marimba (which is why vibes > marimba, pedaling and flat bars), so the the guy with the cymbals and toms and other things, yeah I respect that guy (or girl) most. _________________________ Cypress Lake High School Marching Pride Freshman - 06-07 - Snare Sophomore - 07-08 - Tenors Junior - 08-09 - Tenors, Drum Captain In the future - ??-?? - Center Tenor of some corps I used to be Apollo541
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#146469 - 09/23/07 11:31 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
PaulCavanaugh blank Registered: 09/23/07 Loc: Kingman, Arizona	Definetely Marimba, cause if you have a "good" percussionist, who can play the marimba well, and a show with an amazing mallet solo with four mallets, it just makes the audiences jaws drop, and isn't that what we are all going for. _________________________ Kingman High School Marching Bulldogs 2006-2007:Auxillary-Tower of Power 2007-2008:Marimba 1-Rise of The Samuri Warrior
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#146470 - 10/13/07 10:58 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: PaulCavanaugh]
Aaronicus Registered: 08/31/07 Loc: ...	i was thinkin the jingle bells... _________________________ Londonderry High School Marching Band: Bass 2 \| 2006-2007 \| "Movie Extravaganza" Quints \| 2007-2008 \| "Music of America" Quints \| 2008-2009 \| "Tommy" http://www.lancermusic.org/index.html
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#146471 - 10/13/07 01:39 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Aaronicus]
Shoesinadryer1 Registered: 11/07/04 Loc: Florida	Honestly, I think the player makes the instrument manly, not the other way around. Also if your normal dynamic of forte can be heard over the band, without microphones, I think that instrument is manly. Bass drum and gong/tam tam played together is an example, as explained before. A strong marimba player can make the marimba a beast. Same applies for vibraphone and xylophone players. If the player is strong enough, he could probably make an Ibo drum in the pit, manly. That's my take. _________________________ I remember the silences, and I remember the screams... of the home stands going wild and the feeling of dreams. The music makers and those beautiful girls, doing a ten minute show that you wish would last forever...
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#146472 - 10/22/07 02:49 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: hiredgoonthug]
Anonymous Unregistered	The manliest thing would have to be the gong or the bass drum because you get to hit those hard, but since I'm a mallet percussion freak as well as a tenor freak, I'm gonna say the xylophone
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#146473 - 01/19/08 08:36 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: hiredgoonthug]
Dooley blank Registered: 01/14/08	A gong / bass drum hit, but you have to do a pelvic thrust while you do it! Edited by Dooley (01/19/08 08:36 PM)
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#146474 - 01/20/08 12:01 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Dooley]
glassmen07 Registered: 05/28/04 Loc: Magnolia,TX	When I first read the thread title, I instantly thought of that big guy that was in Phantom's pit the last few years. My answer? Anything that dude plays. Wow. Far left. Attachments 275880-Phantom\'04Pit.jpg (34 downloads) Edited by glassmen07 (01/20/08 12:04 AM) _________________________ OAS AAS LLS ~SHSU~ Tenors: '07,'08
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#166040 - 06/24/08 12:29 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: EcjMallets06]
EcjMallets06 blank Registered: 07/09/07 Loc: U.S	I agree. Melodic pit players are most respected. But manliest has to be timbali. bass and gong. So B.a _________________________ Christopher Williams
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#166042 - 06/24/08 12:32 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: EcjMallets06]
tukytenor Registered: 06/19/08 Loc: Texas	I'm gonna go ahead and put my vote in for cowbell, nothing gets the ladies goin like a good cowbell player.
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#168801 - 08/05/08 02:31 AM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: Drum_freek]
xp4nd00bi3x blank Registered: 08/13/07 Loc: TX	cowbell, gong, timpani, and marimba
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#168845 - 08/05/08 01:04 PM Re: 'manliest' pit instruments [Re: xp4nd00bi3x]
PercussionMan Registered: 08/03/08 Loc: TN	I got a fever...and the only perscription...is more cowbell....no seriously, back when I was in college it had to be the Marimba...5 octave rosewood...
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