Bucs New Hats Stir Controversy
Drum Corps News May 12, 1965 issue (click on images to enlarge / enhance)
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Labels: 1965, Drum Bugle Corps, Reading Buccaneers
posted by NanciD @ 10/26/2007 06:45:00 AM
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Thanks for the memories, Nanci!
I love checking out all of your historic postings here. I'm amazed at how many I remember personally. Crazy how some details stick with you so many years later!
I recall that this article about the Bucs' 'hat controversy' was in the copy of Drum Corps News that I bought at the 1965 'Evening With the Corps' show at Carnegie Hall. I clearly remember reading it on the subway heading home to Queens that night! Amazing, huh? (Ironic side note: That was the last time I was in the 'Hall' until I went to a concert there just this past Monday.)
Disclaimer and apology: I cannot remember everyone and may not spell some of the names correctly. I apologize for the errors and omissions.
From right to left:
Front rank:
Bruce Englehart
Curt Wiedenhammer
Junior (John to his mother) Ferraro
Ned Baldinger
Lee Deschler
Brian Kauffman
Second rank:
Ken Green (over Angie’s right shoulder)
Louie (Dennis) McLean (or at the left of the front rank)
Ronnie Ferraro (the youngest of the three Ferraro brothers) is likely one of those I can't place.
The horns are double piston (horizontal) Getzens. Only the sopranos (you’re looking at the first sopranos) had two pistons. The other horns were piston/slide Getzens. The second piston was illegal for some contests, notably the VFW and AL championships. The sopranos inserted a “plug”, a short length of wooden doweling, inside the second valve body behind the piston and removed the lock from the slide. The judges checked the horns during inspection. The practices the week of these shows were fraught with panic, as the sopranos had to first free up the slide, which may not been moved in months (lots of slide and penetrating oil, brute strength, and cursing), and then relearn the show using the slide. You can imagine the clunkers coming from the sops during the horn arc.
Thanks, Nanci!
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