is... http://www.bandparenting.net apologise to all those posters from across the pond, but I found this site a scream! (well the Why, What, Where, When and How bit anyway) is it just me (or my Englishness) or does this seem a tad OTT?
For some reason I thought that it was going to offer advice on which section to leave your little angel with when the baby-sitter has let you down! Still very funny though
Great website! The webmaster must have put an awful lot of time in it! Funny to see that they seem to have the same kind of "issues" with contest adjudicators as we do -> http://www.bandparenting.net/judge.html For a moment, I thought you were going to start another long lasting, daily thread...
No need to apologise (or apologize, as we would spell it over here). The site's very funny, and really quite accurate.
Ask yourselves, "How can any pool table ever hope to compete with a gold trombone?"". Band is the answer LOL I was also rather amused at the thought of a phalanx of quick-marching sousaphones.
It may seem like a really good joke, but I think it is serious. I know of parents that have spaced their children four years apart so they could be band parents for 16 years (US high schools - and thus their marching bands - have four years in them)!!
Literally crying with laughter: "Band parents need to know about tubas. Producing a sound of unparalleled power, grandeur and nobility the tuba is unique among musical instruments in its flexibility and suppleness. The tuba is properly used in all forms of music and is never out of place. The student of orchestration can not go wrong using tubas since it is all but impossible to over use them (under use of tubas is a far more common fault among novice orchestrators). So pleasing is the sound of the tuba that many mediocre scores have been raised to near greatness by the abundant use of tubas in the instrumentation. Effective orchestrators make as much use as possible of the tuba. "Troppo" is an adjective that quite simply does not apply to the tuba." Memo to self: Must take this to show to basses on Tuesday! Astounded Badger xx
"Cornet- What you get when you take the average of a trumpet and a flugelhorn." "Fluegelhorns- Soprano tubas." BMB xx
Yup. Printed it, sticking it on back wall of band room then retiring a safe distance! That site is priceless!
