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Originally posted by BFulton:
Flute!
(Also a color guard "veteran!" Anyone else have to march in those awful short leather boots with the hard soles???)
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I played the flute 7-9th grade. I was a natural and was super at it - not trying to brag, because at the time, I didn't see how good I was - I just hated it all the time 'cause of my band director who would yell "JUDAS PRIEST" at us if someone messed up. Plus my best friend wouldn't speak to me for a year because we had to have a competition for each instrument to see who would be first chair, and I always won while she would be 5th or 6th - it is a very sad memory
What is even worse is that I gave it up. Now I can't play a note on it. I've thought about taking lessons again, but who has the time? And of course I was a spoiled rotten brat who didnt' want a used one - so my parents shelled out $400 bucks for a brand new one with a pretty blue velvet case because they thought it would keep me playing. How many times has that thought bothered me!
On a happier note - I loved being in colorguard. I did flag my first year, and rifle and flag my senior year. I still have both (and play with them more than I'd like to admit). I used to love to make up routines and stuff. And yes I hated the boots, but what I hated more was the tacks we had to put in the bottom to make us "click" when we marched, and the huge ball of green & white yarn we had to tie to the front. Of course the suntan colored hose on all our pasty white legs were very attractive also
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