Remembrance Day: National holiday?/"Veterans' Day"? (merged)

[daftandbarmy]

Where do banjo-ukuleles fit in?

My guide on Kilimanjaro

 

[Blackadder1916]

Where do banjo-ukuleles fit in?

At least they were all in step.

 

[daftandbarmy]

At least they were all in step.

But their teeth weren't

 

[CountDC]

That you could see...

In my experience all it takes is one marker near the front to be messed up, then every follow on division is stuck trying to get back to the actual pace.

If everybody does what they are supposed to do, it all works out. Teaching people the wrong way is what causes markers to think they know better than the band and to march at the wrong pace.

or that anyone mentioned. Don't know about these days or everyone's experience but in the 80's if we were all messed up on parade we knew it by hearing the nice gentleman with the pace stick afterwards talking ever so nicely to us and having us march some more in order to gently correct us so that we could get it right for next time. Then there was the nice people with a leaf and hooks buzzing around like annoying mosquitos.

If everyone is marching to the marker then everyone is in step with each other and not trying to get back to the "actual pace" which may be wrong when dealing with more than one band or in an area with the echo factor. Marching to the band works great if there is only one in an open area, not so well when multiples in echo chambers. Ottawa had 2 bands on the last parade I did there and if we tried to match the drum beats we heard we would have had to run. 2 beats, 2 echoes, which do we step too, screw it, follow the marker!! was the call of the day.

Funniest I have seen was when the band itself wasn't in step to their own drummer during a march on. Slight delay in the start of the actual parade while some discussion was held.