What do your double reeds do?

[Nancy08]

I know there are only a select few of us, but i was wondering what all you oboe and bassoon players do for marching season. At Leander we have double reeds on alto and tenor sax, pit, and drumline. Ive also heard that they march other instruments or do colorguard...

[MartinHorn]

pit, cymbal line, sax, guard

[thomasabernathy]

pit, cymbal line, guard, drum major

[hebrontuba08]

ours are mostly in pit. but the past two years we had an oboe player (who now attends Juliard) play Bass 5 and then Tenors.

[n3rdu5]

Most of ours go on the Cymbal Line. Some do pit crew, some faux-march other instruments. This year one of them went to guard.

 

A few years ago we had a bassoonist who went from Cymbals to playing Snare, and then she completely quit bassoon to be in percussion, haha.

[stewiemylove]

i play bassoon, but during marching season im on the cymbal line.

[RobinsonSax07]

We have no Bassons or oboes, probably the largest band in TX without a Basson,Oboe, or Bari-Sax.

[Salesmonkey]

Most of ours march Tenor Sax. One went into pit. We have no cymbal line though itd be cool if we got one...

[bumbythebeach]

some do sax, some do guard, most do pit

[manuel_pablo]

All of our double reeds that make it march cymbals.

[G'townPIT]

pit, cymbals

[actualgirltrombone]

pit, cymbals, drumline, drum major, i think we have one in guard, marching a clarinet but not playing...

[t3hZm4n]

cymbals, guard, drum major, trumpet, alto sax, and one permanent tenor sax

[jbrih13]

Most of our double reeds march cymbols if they are good enough to make the line. some are fakers on other instruments when we need to fill in holes for people that failed.

[Arabella]

I play oboe and march tenor sax, another one of our oboes plays bass drum in the battery, and our other does pit and has played the solo in our show for the past two years. One of our bassoons marches alto sax and the other is in pit.

[Arabella]

let's see, we had 2 oboes and 1 bassoon in pit, 2 oboes and 3 bassoons on clarinet, 1 bassoon on sax, 1 bassoon on bass clarinet, and 1 bassoon on trumpet. I was on clarinet. And none of which play their instrument except the 3 in pit.

Wait.

That's ten double reed players- eleven if you play (I didn't gather that).

 

You have no idea how jealous I am!

[Nancy08]

acctually, that was 11, and we had one more oboe that had some foot operation and didn't march at all. so we have 12 double reeds.

That's crazy!!!

 

I want 12 double reeds...*tear*

 

Let's see...we have 5 bassoons and 2 1/2 oboes.

 

( the 1/2 beining a guy that plays flute and oboe...)

 

6 (5 1/2) of those are fish, and all but 2 are underclassmen.

[Salesmonkey]

And one of those two upperclassmen would much rather be in percussion than playing bassoon.

[OBOEFREAK08]

Cymbal line! Or Pit, we have one that played flute last 2 years, and one who is switching from flute to oboe... it's the thing to do at our school. Multiple people have switched to a double reed instrument.

[Arabella]

acctually, that was 11, and we had one more oboe that had some foot operation and didn't march at all. so we have 12 double reeds.

Yeah, I tried to change it to 11 right after I posted it but my computer was being silly and not letting me do so.

[Keyboard_Countessa]

March/play another ww instrument, march/faux-play ww instrument, drum major, pit, or cymbal line (back when we had one).

[shmily1130]

I play bassoon, and I'm in pit. There is one other pit-bassoonist. Two are in guard, and two play sousa.

We have one oboe who plays cymbals.

I don't know where martinhorn (sorry if I misspelled that; it was from the top of my head) got the sax part... *shrugs*

[Drummer Chick]

Ours are really spread out, I think we probably have a few in every section, we have one in the Pit, he's a basoonist who plays marimba, and he's awesome at it, he's better than a lot of the regular percussionists in fact. We're trying to get him to stay in percussion for concert season, but he really likes his basoon. Can't see why...