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| WTF is a lyre? |
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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:34 pm
Lyres for stands only. I usually end up memorizing most of the music anyway. They are a nuisance though.
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:29 pm
Lyres are forbidden in Teh Land of teh Stylemarchers. Get caught with one, you DIE. Plus, they are for lazy people who can't memorize their music. ((no offense or anything))
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:04 am
We use lyres in band, but we encourage everyone to memorize the music instead. I hate lyres. They usually don't help that much, because there's a glare or you have to concentrate on everything else so much that you loose your place on the sheet music too often, and the ones that we have to use can burn you on a hot day; so we put bandaids on the bottom of them.
not to mention those sexy tan-lines you get on your arm from marching a parade with one of those things on.
Word to the wise: Just memorize the music. It's easier.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:41 pm
Our band directors and drum majors make us memorize our music when we go marching. They say lyres are unprofessional and look tacky as none of them match with the rest. I don;t know, it's easer though, french horn lyers (even marcing ones) are hard to find and expensive and molding a trumpet one to a french horn takes time and patience, so I guess I don't mind not using lyers
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:00 am
Wow, lyres...hehe I don't use mine, but everybody else in my band does. Our band program really isn't that great, so our musical selection really doesn't take much to memorize...Some kids struggle with it though, I suppose...o_O
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:47 am
yeah, i love lyers! I break mine constently...so i have come up with a new sport. I make up uses for my broken lyers! we had like 50 uses. I wore two in my hair a couple days. then i was pinning up my shirt. just don't clip them on your ears....it hurts...trust me. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:13 pm
We use lyres in the begging of the season abut we don't use them for competitions and we also use them for parades and stuff like that.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:16 pm
my band never used lyres except in the stand. We always had our marching music memorized and at football games we used the lyres in the stands to read the stand music. That was it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:40 pm
I also like to pinch people with them. Mostly my guy friends.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:43 pm
My mom won't buy me one... I have to memorize all of my music... stare But, on the bright side, after 3 years of marching band, my ability of memorizing all and any music is now top-notch!
But a lyre could be useful every once in a while.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:36 pm
MidnightArticuno My mom won't buy me one... I have to memorize all of my music... stare But, on the bright side, after 3 years of marching band, my ability of memorizing all and any music is now top-notch! But a lyre could be useful every once in a while. My ability to memorize music is pretty bad but somehow I manage.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:53 am
A lyre is useful when you're still learning the music, but after a certain point in the season, you should know it. I mean, it's just a couple short pep band songs. How hard can it be?
Besides, it's more fun when you don't look at the music, because it gives you the liscence to
A) Improv based on what you're given by the others (Point in case: Everyone in my band that doesn't use a lyre)
B) play another instrument's part (Point in case: Me)
C) Expand and make it better (Point in case: Nick DiSalvio playing Centerfold.)
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