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The drum and lyre corps originated in the Philippines, as an economical alternative to regular brass bands or drum and bugle corps. The instrumentation of drum and lyre corps consists of a typical marching band (snare, tenor, bass drums, and cymbals) with the bell lyre section. The lyre sections consist of bell lyres, glockenspiels, as well as ...
Corps Location Website 7th Regiment New London, Connecticut 7thregiment.org: The Battalion Salt Lake City, Utah battalioncorps.org: Blue Devils B: Concord, California
SCV 50th anniversary logo, 2017. Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps is a competitive drum and bugle corps, based in Santa Clara, California.The Santa Clara Vanguard is one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International (DCI) and a seven time DCI World Champion, winning the title most recently in 2018.
The Venezuelan corps of drums has about 350 members. The corps is led by a single drum major. In some corps, especially in civil-based ones, other brass instruments may be added to the bugle section. [18] Military corps have tabards applied on the bass drums, snare drums, glockenspiels, and bugles at every performance.
The three Belleville drum and bugle corps are long gone but certainly not forgotten.. Every sweaty mile marching the streets of Belleville and other more distant towns, every sack lunch or night ...
The "drum line" term began to be used by other marching percussion ensembles in the 70's along with the instrumentation used in the drum & bugle corps activity. This includes multi-tenor drums and pitched bass drums with split parts, embellishments like back-sticking and stick tosses, and innovations like mylar drumheads.
The corps was founded in 1963 as the Ye Wah Drums and Lyras Corps, an activity for youth of Chinese-American heritage. Roy Wong, Frank Lim, Thomas Fong, and Yuk Fong had originally approached the Sacramento Chinese community with the intent of starting a drum and bugle corps to perform at the many festivals and parades held each year in the Sacramento area.
In 1972, Drum Corps International was founded, and was designed to create one uniform, corps-governed competitive circuit for junior drum and bugle corps (members aged twenty-one or less). DCI formed its own rules-governing body and enacted membership fees causing further disparity between startup drum corps and more professional units.