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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2008 18:23:15 GMT -5
I march in a forty-piece band and of those, I think five are in the pit--two bassists, a trap set and two bells. I've seen basses, guitars, bells, timbalis, concert bass drums, gongs, chimes, and all manner of things, and I was wondering what you guys put in your pits. I've also seen marching basses with wireless hookups.
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Aug 22, 2008 19:21:32 GMT -5
Our pit last year had about 5 or 6 sets of marimbas, xylophones, and bells, a gong, timpani drums, chimes, wind chimes, a propane tank, a bass drum, and a suspended cymbal. No guitars, ever. It was an 8 or 9 person pit, I think. This year we have 7, so no timpani.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2008 19:55:57 GMT -5
Was the propane tank specifically called for?
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Aug 22, 2008 20:26:12 GMT -5
I don't know....the propane tank has always been fixed to the top of one of the marimbas. It got used a lot in last year's show, which was the kind of show that couldn't be done without a very strong pit section.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2008 22:39:59 GMT -5
Was it a sort of "junk" percussion instrument? Like an American gamelan time thing (not that you have reason to know what that is)?
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Aug 23, 2008 1:19:57 GMT -5
out of our 180 member band, we have a 20-person pit with marimbas, xylophones, possibly vibraphones, glockenspiels, timpani, concert bass drum, gong, concert snare, electric bass, and lots of toys.
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Aug 25, 2008 8:05:02 GMT -5
My bd would NEVER allow guitars or basses in marching band, not even in pit. But electronic keyboards and bass guitars have been in indoor drumline.
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Post by the_sousabone on Aug 25, 2008 9:57:05 GMT -5
the propane tank is an accent kind of instrument, almost like a brake drum.
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Post by altoclarinets on Aug 25, 2008 18:56:21 GMT -5
Hmm...
2 fiberglass xylos (crappy sound, full of splinters)
One marimba... kinda
One electric bass
Timpani
Crotales
Glock
Vibes
Chimes
Bass drum
Hi hat
Suspended cymbal
Some bands in our area have electric guitars, singers, keyboards, all sorts of crazy stuff. Ours is pretty standard. The college I wanna go to has fiddle and banjo players in their pit.
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Aug 31, 2008 0:02:42 GMT -5
This year:
4 helium tanks to be used as "bells"
2 Timpani
1 Xylophone
1 Vibraphone
2 Marimbas
1 Bell set
Chimes
some sort of half-drum kit thing with a bass and a hi-hat
several suspended cymbals placed near keyboard instruments
a concert bass drum
...and a lawn tractor to lug it all around, although we haven't managed to find one, our sponsor took our old one back.
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Post by nphsdm on Sept 18, 2008 22:21:52 GMT -5
2 Vibraphone
2 Marimba
1 Bell set
1 Xylophone
Gong
Concert Bass Drum
Timpani
Cymbal kit... thingy... (I dunno what it is... it's got a bunch of cymbals on it)
Wind chimes
Chimes
Concert Snare Drum
LOTS of suspended cymbals
Congas
Break Drum (Or a really heavy rusted hub-cap... same thing.)
We have 7 pit members. Amazing mallet players most of them. There's a part in our show where they just rip up and down the A major scale.
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Post by allnamesaretaken on Jun 9, 2009 21:16:59 GMT -5
Each year, my high school expanded a bit in their instrumentation; by the end of 4 seasons, we had used (as far as I can remember):
2 xylophones
2 vibraphones
3 marimbas
A bunch of toms and suspended/crash cymbals
Keyboards
Break drum and other random junk yard metal
Aluminum sheet
Tambourine
Gong
Tympani
2 concert bass drums
4 marching bass drums
Bells
Crotales
2 Chimes
Whipcrack
Sleighbells
Concert Snare
Cowbells
Woodblocks
Claves
Shakers (?)
Triangles
Until we finally decided to build special rigs for the accessories, moving all of that equipment was quite the hassle.
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Post by fruple on Jun 9, 2009 22:43:11 GMT -5
This year:
A marimba player. We have one. D=
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Jun 10, 2009 23:02:48 GMT -5
Last year we had the following:
Bells
More bells
Chimes
1 Vibraphone
1 Xylophone
2 Marimbas
2 Timpani
1 Concert bass drum
A large amount of toms
A large amount of cymbals
1 gong
Various small percussion effects
Brake drum
most of a drumset
and a keytar
All the mallet instruments, the bass, and the keytar were hooked up to a very large sound system. Unfortunately, our BD blew our subwoofer, so we'll be doing the same thing this year sans the sub.
We've had as many as 10 people in our pit I think. This year we'll be smaller though.
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Post by flutefanatic on Jun 18, 2009 11:04:41 GMT -5
This is the first time our marching band is really competiting, so idk what we'll have in pit. But our competitive percussion ensemble has 2 marimbas, 2 xylophones, a set of vibes, 2 sets of bells, 2 keyboards, some chimes, and a (very old and falling apart) drumset.
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