In Oklahoma, we've been told in no uncertain terms that any event sanctioned by the OSSAA is not to have drones in the vicinity. We are to stop the game until it is no longer nearby.
Bubba, you didn't take out your piece and blow it out of the sky while on the line? And you consider yourself a Georgian.
Did you notice the panzy baseball players had to quit, but on the other side of that fence the soccer match didn't even miss a beat.
Anytime an association or board can't put a ruling on it they will always cite "liability or insurance issue" I have actually used mine at a game and at a marching band competition... the visual is amazing. I even saw an offside that wasn't called
GOD! I HATE baseball sharing our fields ... when you talk to their coaches you would think that they were gods of the sports world. One time a few softballs came our way on a game and I went over to the coach to ask them to hit another direction. He had the nerve to say to me: "That might put a little too much excitement into soccer -- wouldn't it?"
First off, its a Sousaphone. I only played it during my senior year in high school. Its a long story involving high school marching band politics. The tradition was that the sousaphones were carried by senior boys, and there were only 2 that year, so I learned all three marches we were to perform in the big parade. I went from being the worst clarinet player in the band to the better Sousaphonist.
I've seen a few bands that actually march tubas. Makes it a lot harder to march and carry a heavy instrument like that when you're not wearing it.
I, in fact, played a marching tuba in band. Our director hated the way sousaphones looked and sounded. Still got to wear a beret instead of the regular hat though.
A beret is a small soft cap-like article, worn by Frenchmen and Army Rangers! A hat can be anything worn on your head. See Donald Trump. PH
The main difference is in how the ~18 feet of tubing is wrapped. In a sousaphone, it's wrapped with a person-sized hole in the middle so you can wear it around your chest. In a marching tuba, it's wrapped so that there is a balance point in the middle of the instrument and you sit that point of the instrument on your shoulder with half of the horn on either side. So a marching tuba ends up looking somewhat like a trumpet with a severe growth problem and a sousaphone looks like, well, a sousaphone.
It appears to be a 3/4 F tuba, but I could be wrong. That is how you hold and march with a standard tuba. The ones in my picture above are marching BB flat tubas which are larger horns.
I tried to keep this soccer-related because the Guards Band usually plays at Wembley before the FA Cup Final and Internationals. Who knew there were so many types of tuba? Thank you very much. I think I would now like a whistle that sounds like a tuba! PH
That's interesting. The reason Sousa invented the Sousaphone is because tubas direct their sound upward, away from the audience.