All day long the lift upon their shoulders and play these instruments. Below is a picture that show the difference in size between the baritone and the contrabase. The last gives an indication how the contrabase is played, with one end on your shoulder while holding the rest on your arms. Imagine lifting and lowering, and marching with this thing from sunrise to sunset day after day. Talk about sore shoulders and arms.....hence, my admiration.
2 comments:
no wonder they are big guys! It must be very tiring lugging that thing around like that.
Barb....there is one gal who plays Contrabase with the Crossmen. The other night I saw Corps that had two, with one of the two about your size.
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