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I want to be you now. Because that's just freaking awesome. I literally get chills every time I hear the horn solo in Music of the Night...and therefore I desperately want to play it.

Heh, suppose I should at least make an attempt at introducing myself...I'm in my tenth year of playing French horn (and have owned my own double horn since my fourth year...silver Conn 8-D, I adore it), and I also played mellophone for all 4 years of high school marching band (I picked it up again for the homecoming parade last year, I thought my arms were going to fall off because I hadn't marched in almost a year).

Speaking of murder on the arms...We do two run throughs at the end of marching rehersal. And the way our show is designed, we march like a DCI drum corps. It's a pretty hard-core show, and it's about 8 minutes long. And my arms want to fall off after the second run through's over. I know understand why so many brass players hate woodwinds. (I marched flute last year.)

What do you mean find the drill? We pay someone to design our drill for us. And he writes really hardcore stuff. Our show this year is called "Nocturnal Images" and features Danse Macabre, Night on Bald Mountain, Nocturne in Eb Major, and something our BD composed based on the previous pieces. We literally are like a drum corps with woodwinds. And yeah, I just..Ack. Our assistant director, who also is who we pay to design our drill, freaks if you break at attention. He makes brass hold our horns up that much longer, and threatens to have us hold them up for 10 minutes after practice with ankle weights on the end. smile We love him though. He's really a good guy.

I'm just saying what I had heard.

I might start playing the French horn this year. I've been playing the flute for 3 whole years now and need to broaden my horizon. ^.^ Plus, we haven't had a French horn player for 2 years running now! XDD I plan to be here quite a bit if I do start playing for tips and stuff. =S I've never played anything quite like the French horn. My friend is taking up the oboe this year too so I won't be the only 8th grader in the beginning band lol. And I am also playing my flute in advanced band. Please don't bomb on me for saying that I play flute. XP From what your saying, I'm totally lost. My friend that is starting the oboe plays the clarinet rofl! But, whats trail? And in our band, the trumpets get all the attention because our band director is a trumpet player. XP

Feeling left out with all this mellophone talk...

So, what I'm wondering is if anyone knows what a triple Horn costs. It's just something I'm curious about since I saw one at band camp this summer.

Time to brag about my mellophone section: there are only two of them, but they almost never fail to out play all ten trumpets and the rest of the band (except our piccolo who plays too loud). They are the awesomeist people I know (yes, sadly, I am not one of them).

Woot, go horns! (/mellophones :3) I'm currently 4th chair in symphonic, but we haven't had chair tryouts yet. It's by year then alphabetical right now (Freshman with back-of-alphabet last name) x3