Well, at my middle school, you could only learn snare, there were no bells, but there was only one girl anyway. So no band director could put girls on mallets anyway. But I was always playing Tympani or Snare, and every girl I knew played mallets. Anyways, that was just my middle school.

Oh yeah, and I'm touched that you noticed and used my name Jen. I think I'll just call you Jen, cause it's shorter and sounds better. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

<small>[ July 13, 2002, 10:25 PM: Message edited by: TheTenorFormallyKnownAsJHS ]</small>

I can't remember that far back(heck I did just graduate high school here...), but I do remember something from elementary school......

Chris and Jen...sitting in a tree....K-I-S-S-I-N-G....first come love, then comes marriage....then comes the baby in the baby carriage. <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" />

Now before anyone freaks out or what not....I'm just kidding around here so don't take it seriously....just a joke. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

I don't care man, I'm never offended by anything, usually. It just shows how childish you are, <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> , j/k. I'm sure that Jen is a wonderful and beautiful young woman (God, that sounds really old. Maybe I should just say "I'm sure she's really hot", but I'm not going to, don't want to seem sexist or soemthin). <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Yeah...it sure does doesn't it....oh well.....just having some clean fun before church <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> .

LOL CoosCoos, I think the last time someone used that little rhyme was about the 4th grade.... <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" />

Chris, if you said you're sure that I'm hot I wouldn't be offended LOL I would take that as a compliment <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> BTW, I like to use people's real names when I know them because they're easier to remember, and I know at least I prefer to be called by my real name.

This reminds me, I was thinking maybe someone should start a picture thread sometime and that way we would sorta know who we were talking to. Then also maybe Scott could finally see what Myranda looks like and shut up about it <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" />

Now *cough* *cough* back to our real topic.....

Indoorperc, at my elementary school like everyone picked flute too. But you didn't have to, you could pick whatever you wanted, like french horn or oboe or whatever, but most everyone just picked flute or clarinet. But anyway, there were 2 people on percussion, and so we both had to learn everything. Besides most of our music was just snare and bass drum anyway. But we did learn mallets and I usually was the one who played them if they needed to be played just cuz the other kid couldn't play worth crap.

But anyway, Chris, your middle school didn't have any bells!? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> I feel bad for you! Or maybe I'm just spoiled cuz my middle school had 2 sets of bells, a nice Musser Kelon xylo, another kinda crappy xylo, a set of pretty nice Musser chimes, 4 nice timpani (better than what we use for outdoor marching at the high school), 2 sorta crappy timpani, and we would borrow vibes from the high school if we needed them.

Here's the kicker - we also had a 4.3 octave rosewood Musser marimba.....

I'm sorry guys. Please don't hurt me just cuz we have a decent music budget...

<small>[ July 14, 2002, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: drummergrl004 ]</small>

It's ok Jen <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> . Yeah we had 1 bell set, but it was really bad and I only played it once when we played the Theme from Cats, lol. <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" />

But, we really didn't have any other mallet instruments. I usually played Tympani, and I really love Tympani. And sometimes I'd play snare, but I'm pretty much a Tympanist. I got stuck on it a lot so now I don't play anything else. I'm really good anyway, so who cares.

We might now have had that many instruments, but we started out with 10 percussionists. By the end of the year it was 6, 2 quit, one left and then the only girl left but then came back. So the next year we had 7, but, another person moved, so we had 6 again. We got 3 new percussionists in 7th grade, but 2 ended up quiting in the beginning of the year. Let's see we had John, John, Lukas, Jeremy, Gerran, Misty, and I. Then for 8th grade, John#2 left, and we didn't have any news ones. By 9th grade, Jeremy left for Drama, Misty quit cause she didn't like it, Gerran transfered, and we got one new guy named Eric. So we had 4 percussionists in the 9th grade band. When drumline auditions came Lukas and I made Tenors, but John and Eric made pit. So, Eric quit, and Lukas couldn't handle the pressure and quit as well. But, now John and I were in Symphonic Band, so we had more drummers. But, anyway, this year, John didn't make Drumline again, so he quit. And now I'm the last Drummer that started out from 6th grade all the way to Junior year, and now I'm moving so there isn't a single Junior percussionist at JHS right now. And, for the 1st time they will have to have a Junior next year be Drumline Captain, it's always been Senior before.

Phew, sorry about the length, just wanted to show you that we aren't so bad off, but that I'm the only one left. I'm sure this happens a lot. <img border="0" alt="[7]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm7.gif" />

Hah Chris don't worry about the length, I am the queen of long posts <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

A lot of people quit along the way from my school too. But we had a really big group starting in 6th grade. There were like 20 guys and 3 girls just in the 6th grade. Then when we got to 7th grade we got split into 2 bands, most people went into 7th grade band, but 6 of us went to Symphonic band which was combined with the best 8th graders as well. So in symphonic band there were 6 7th graders and 4 8th graders. Then the next year the people from 7th grade band moved into 8th grade band and the 6 of us from symphonic stayed there, and 3 new 7th graders joined us.

Then when we went to high school, one of the 6 of us went to private school, and one went to Baltimore School for the Arts, so that left 4 of us. We have all stayed in one of the 6 bands in high school, and 3 of us did marching band as freshmen. This year one of those guys quit, but the other guy who didn't do mb as a freshman or sophomore joined, so there are still 3 of us. Of course we added people from the other middle school and from other grades as we went along, as well as people who were in the 7th and 8th grade bands. But of the 6 of us who went through together all the way from 6th grade, there is just me and 1 other guy who have been together the whole time.

Interestingly enough, he playes snare and doesn't really talk to me much because now I'm just "one of those foreign gendered things in the pit" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

Dang....that was quite a explaination there Chris.....and it all boiled down to everyone quitting but you? Man that is like whoa.

Dang Jen, I'm sorry that he doesn't really talk to you anymore. That sucks. I can see that a lot of people leave after a while and the number of drummers gets really low. It's kinda sad really. Makes me almost nestalgic for the days when there were more of us and we had just a class of drummers and on those days when we would have no teacher watching Mr. Hollands Opus and throwing toilet paper on the light fixtures. <img border="0" alt="[14]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm14.gif" /> I miss those days. I wish I wasn't moving too, then I could stay and share more memories with my 1st Drumline, and stay with my friends. But I have to move on, as the only drummer left from the beginning. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

Oh well, I guess it just happens that way sometimes, it just comes down to the fact that some people are more into it than others. But I'm in it forever. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="verdana,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="verdana,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by TheTenorFormallyKnownAsJHS:
<strong>Makes me almost nostalgic for the days when there were more of us and we had just a class of drummers and on those days when we would have no teacher watching Mr. Hollands Opus and throwing toilet paper on the light fixtures.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="verdana,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL in middle school when we had a substitute teacher for our percussion class we used to watch the Stomp video Stomp Out Loud. I must have seen that video 5,000 times <img border="0" alt="[2]" title="" src="graemlins/cwm2.gif" /> I don't remember any toilet paper being thrown though LOL

<small>[ July 17, 2002, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: drummergrl004 ]</small>