Let's look at the difficulties involved with performing in a marching band with a horn in the most difficult venue, the football halftime show.
The difficulty of playing horn while marching is understood by anyone playing horn while marching, and we are talking about high step marching. In addition to this challenge are the challenges in playing with a 200+ member group in moving and changing patterns on a football field where the band is spread across 60 meters. You are not always able to view the director's downbeat, yet you must move in your formation in a complicated changing pattern while maintaining the best possible music quality. The music quality is very challenging because exact downbeats and pitch appear to be changing from your single moving viewpoint. The exact downbeat is uncertain because the musicians are spread so far apart and the effect of the speed-of-sound travel time delay becomes noticeable (as players at one end of the formation listen to the players at the other end), and as delayed sound reflects back from the grandstands. Multiple pitches occur because of the "doppler effect" of other musicians moving away from you, or toward you, plus the pitch bouncing off the grandstands varies as you march toward the stands or away. Perhaps marching band musicians let the slop slip in and don't worry about all the above effects. But to the sensitive musician, performing to a high level with the above challenges is difficult. _______________________________________________________________________ Internet Access, Shared & Dedicated Web Hosting. Colocation and Domain Name Registration at http://www.SharedPoint.com _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
