Actually, all of this shows that you can really have fun with history!

Yest you can play the instrument that you have always wanted, but never learned.  In fact, because of the unique way that the band and the players can be designated, you can be the equivalent of the first-chair of the section.  If I can ever get the march written, I'll get around to making some official membership cards for those who are interested.  For example, if you have always wanted to emulate Tommy Dorsey on the slide trombone, you can be:

Not the first-chair trombone
                 in
Not the 1907 Jamestowne Exposition Brass Band


Randy Cabell
Bandmaster (note no not!!!!!)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lonny J. Watro" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Different focus -- Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-


>I just read this and does this mean I can be a member of your band? LOL. I
> always wanted to play any instrument it didn't matter which. I just wanted
> to play. I marched in our band in high school, but only as a color guard
> because I could never learn to READ MUSIC. (hah). I could only memorize the
> tune but when it came down to sight reading I failed and had to give it up.
> I started with the clarinet, tried the piano and then the guitar. I could
> play our teams fight song on my friends clarinet only because I memorized
> the tune. So, I guess I could be a member of Not the 1907 Jamestown
> Exposition Brass Band? I could carry the colors - hah!
> ~ Lonny, musically challenged
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Cabell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Different focus -- Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-
> 
> 
> Thanks for the note.  I thought picking a name was hard, but not THIS hard.
> I am now leaning toward adding GRAND March to the end.
> 
> The Jamestowne (Something) Grand March
> 
> Grand Marches were big in the mid 19th century, with just about everybody
> getting one dedicated to them.  Lincolon, Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc.
> 
> This elevation beyond the status of a plain vanilla march may ameliorate the
> fact that I think it will have to go into waltz time toward the end of the
> trio.  A MARCH IN WALTZ TIME!!!?!?!?!??!  I don't think I have ever heard of
> such either, but the final tune in the march medley will be William of
> Nassau - Prince of Orange, which at the moment is the only tune that I have
> documented which was actually played in the New World before 1609.  It went
> on to greater fame as the National Anthem of the Netherlands, and like many
> patriotic tunes, for some reason it moves into 3/4 time.  We cannot complain
> since both THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER and AMERICA are in 3/4, but then you
> don't usually see people marching to them.
> 
> This is really getting to be a lot of fun, thanks in large part to all you
> good folks out there in VA-HIST who have helped me.  I hope to get back to
> working on the march tomorrow -- spent most of the day today designing
> band-book covers for another part of the project:
> 
>                    "Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition Brass Band"
> 
> I don't know whether such a band existed, but brass bands were everywhere in
> the early 1900's, and I think I recall on the front of Vol II of the
> Jamestown Exposition book that I saw last weekend in Jamestowne, a picture
> of part of a military band -- trombone and bass -- standing at attention.
> That's enough for me.  Think of all the possibilities of my creation.
> Anybody can not be a member of the band!!!!!  If you have always wanted to
> play the trumpet, then I can make you:
> 
>    "Not the solo trumpet player of  'Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition
> Brass Band.'
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Randy Cabell
> Bandmaster of Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition Brass Band
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janet Hunter" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Different focus -- Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-
> 
> 
>> Randy and all,
>>
>> I have read some, but not all of the recent posts on the upcoming
>> celebrations with great interest.  My experience with the names of marches
>> is that they
>> are usually designed to appeal to the common man, etc., etc.
>>
>> I'd suggest something a little more plebian like "Celebration Jamestowne
>> 400", "For Jamestowne 1607",  "Virginia Founders' March"  (maybe it'll be
>> a state
>> march!).
>>
>> I understand the interest in the "quadra" language, but thinking of famous
>> marches, like Washington Post, etc...the names aren't unwieldy.
>>
>> Also Randy, on a trip from VA to MO in a new car with (finally) a CD
>> player I
>> listened to the wonderful CD you sent a couple of years ago.  Thanks.
>>
>> Janet (Baugh) Hunter
>>
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