Another band tower?!

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:18 pm

Yes folks, as I was driving through campus, I see another yellow band tower being put up on the fields on the field house side. It is one level shorter and it appears it has better braces at the bottom. Wonder where the funding came from...

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:29 pm

Curious... Very curious...

Got pics?

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:01 pm

I was up in BG today (for Laura Smith's senior recital, as it were) and Doc H mentioned that the FMB had gotten a largish loan from the university. She said the money went to pay for the new sousaphones, euphs, mellos, and tenor saxes, but maybe there was enough for a second, smaller tower?

Strouse · Post by **Strouse** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:46 am

FliccGirl wrote:I... the FMB had gotten a largish loan from the university. She said the money went to pay for the new sousaphones...

Whoa...new sousaphones?!? Your not yankin' my chain now, are ya Flicc?!? That's great news if it's true!!!

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:25 am

No, I'm serious. The FMB will have something like thirty-five thousand dollars worth of new instruments this year, including sousaphones. But she said the sousas aren't in yet, cuz they had to special order the bells, or something.

turtle · Post by **turtle** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:18 pm

great i leave and they get new horns... i see how it works

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:48 pm

turtle wrote:great i leave and they get new horns... i see how it works

Not new horns...a new tower. Hence the thread title. Gosh dang you all get off-topic in here!

It's the Journey... · Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:36 pm

Metz, you might want to read the other posts here.....

No, I'm serious. The FMB will have something like thirty-five thousand dollars worth of new instruments this year, including sousaphones. But she said the sousas aren't in yet, cuz they had to special order the bells, or something.

graceful · Post by **graceful** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:05 am

i saw the tower tonight too... who knows... it'd be disappointing to think it's for a high school's band camp... but i didn't see a band around it... but there was like an awning (spelling doesn't count) who knows... maybe i need to work earlier shifts so things make sense in the moonlight

regardless... i saw the scaffolding and wonder what it's about too

jacojdm · Post by **jacojdm** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:42 am

Strouse wrote:
FliccGirl wrote:I... the FMB had gotten a largish loan from the university. She said the money went to pay for the new sousaphones...
Whoa...new sousaphones?!? Your not yankin' my chain now, are ya Flicc?!? That's great news if it's true!!!

i mentioned this weeks ago. see page 3 of this thread.
http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB2/v ... c&start=30

the gold lacquer bell interior is a special order item. that, coupled with the fact that it often takes 3-6 months from the order date (and sometimes longer) for a conn 20K, means that it could still be a little while before the new sousaphones arrive.

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:23 am

graceful wrote:i saw the tower tonight too... who knows... it'd be disappointing to think it's for a high school's band camp... but i didn't see a band around it... but there was like an awning (spelling doesn't count) who knows... maybe i need to work earlier shifts so things make sense in the moonlight regardless... i saw the scaffolding and wonder what it's about too

If there were a high school band camp on our field, why wouldn't they just use our scaffolding that's already there?

SaxyGirl85 · Post by **SaxyGirl85** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:23 am

i wouldn't wanna stand on top of that thing!! you could practically touch the sky...the falling and dying thing isn't a big priority on my list...i'd bring my own tower too hahaha

billchase2 · Post by **billchase2** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:19 pm

i have driven past the field house a couple times and seen some sort of drumline outside practicing. not sure what drumline... but maybe them and their band are using the other scaffolding. if i swing by there again, i'll stop and get a quick pic of it and post it on here.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:01 pm

What the.....?

We've got major defections already going on with our basketball program and you guys are talking about a new tower and new sousaphones?

http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB2/v ... php?t=6359

OK, I understand talking about the new sousaphones. As a former maggot, I'm damn proud we're buying the best damn section of the band new equipment. Now if we could only find a director that will get rid of all those damn flutes and clarinets

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:14 pm

Now, now, now.

Let's all be nice.