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Some of the kids in my band use lyres, only in the stands though... but I've never used one... I used to be a flute... but then I decided to join the Pit last year, because we're just so cool xp , and now I play cymbals... we don't even have written music... it's just sort of passed down through the years... and we get to make the new songs up xd 3nodding

edited: I am still a flute in class... except lately when my teacher is making me play percussion... crying I miss my flute

I despise lyres. They don't look good on the field at all.

I'm the Upper Brass Captain at school, so I usually tell the underclassmen to have a piece memorized in full by a certain date (usually I'll tell them on a Friday after a game and let them have the weekend to work on it). When the deadline rolls around, I just take their lyres and put them under my chair for the class period; that's enough proof. They're coming along, though.

Most of our marching music is easy, anyway, so we don't use lyres much for that. We occasionally use them for halftime thingies, though.

Ugh. After the first year of "attempting" to use a Flute lyre, getting it crooked, loosing circulation, turning the knob and twisting the other side around- only to wind up with the music to close to your face, getting it too tilted.....I basically gave up and memorized my music like a good flute player...

And that just helped. I needa burn that thing anyway....>_>''

Yeah; flute lyres are really annoying. If you're gonna use any, though, the least incompetant ones are the ones you hook around your wrist. At least that's what I think. ^^"

We've never used them. Evar. I guess the closest thing we got to them was when the 8th graders had their special little football game time, once during the year when they got to play with the marching band. If they didn't know their music, they were aloud to tape their music to the back of the person infront of them. ^^

I guess I never realized that bands used them; we've always memorized our music. *shrugs*

*has done that before* ninja It hurt when I took 'em out of my hair. ;__;

We use them because we don't march, we just sit in the stands. Good lord I hated those evil flute lyres. gonk I had to use them for two friggin' years. But now I play sax and all is right with the lyres, because they don't cut off my circulation. XD

My friend accidently jumped on his lyre at the last game. ^^;; It's a long story... but it was pretty funny. He has yet to fix it too... which kinda sucked for him since we won our first football game in five years yesterday so we marched around the school today and he couldn't see his music.