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BariSax37 · Joined: 24 Dec 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Warren MI

we have 1265 students and 4 small concert bands and 3 small jazz bands. our marching band consists of 264 and our varsity band(half time shows) consists of 112

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Warren Mott High
Warren MI

Louis Scuderi · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

There are 650 kids in my school (Pre-K-12), and there is ony one high school band, and there are no "chairs".
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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

whoa..and I was depressed that my school had no people O_o

my school has 450 (9-12) with about 65 kids in all the bands combined (marching, jazz, concert) with a lot of overlap. here's an update of my chair position through the year.

freshmen: 3rd Chair Top Wind Ensemble, 1st Chair Jazz II (second highest) All on Alto
Sophomore (in new school): 1st chair concert band (only band), 1st chair Jazz band. All on Alto. When I play trumpet i play 3rd trumpet and when I play bari or tenor i'm 1st. I'm 6th chair out of all the saxes in the county (40+) I'm just too cool for school Cool

Hiya · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 40

Symphonic Band - 1st Alto
Concert Band - 1st Alto (Well, until I changed bands)
Jazz Band - 1st Alto
Honor Band - 1st Alto

tenorsaxman · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Indiana

This year I 'm first chair clarinetist in band, first chair oboist in orchestra, lead tenor (and maybe flute if I can convince my direcctor to let me double) in improv class. Hopefully it will stay this way until I graduate high school
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Currently playing:
alto/tenor saxes
Bb clarinet (LeBlanc rocks!)
piccolo
flute
oboe
piano
organ( vintage Hammond M3)
electric/acoustic guitars
mandolin

JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

so I got my chair standing for the start of next year:

Marching Band:
Woodwind Captain
Saxophone Section leader
3rd Chair Mellophone

yea yea..spare me, I already got it from my section that i'm selling out and going to play french horn. The size of our band pretty much multiplied by 1.5 and we still only have french horn. Me being pretty proficient on trumpet got asked to go to mellophone

Jazz Band:
Top Band: 1st Chair Alto Sax / Soprano Soloist
Bottom Band: 3rd Chair Trumpet / Baritone sax

Concert Band:
Wind Ensemble: 1st Chair Alto Sax
Bottom band: 1st Chair French horn (over the freshmen!)

JPSaxMan · Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

I actually might be changing some chairs around this year.

In Wind Ensemble I might be moving from tenor to alto, but I was the only tenor player this year and unless my BD can find a replacement, I'll be stuck on tenor but one of our two alto players graduated this year. Sad...that there's only two altos in W/E. In Concert Band I might be moving from bari to tenor b/c the only tenor player graduated this year and we have a new bari player coming in (I think) from the junior band. So we'll see.

In jazz band I might be moving from tenor to alto b/c that same alto player that graduated was in jazz band and we're losing another alto player as it is, so we'll see on that one too.

Interesting stuff Very Happy

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Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania