Sousaphones meet gravity, pileup ensues

[TexasTowelie]

5. You'll be happy to know that all of the players are okay.

However, two sousaphones were damaged in the incident.

My high school band started marching the "corp style" in my senior year. I was the tallest person in the band and it always seemed remarkable that when we did pinwheels I would be the inside person near the pivot point taking baby steps while the 4 foot tall youngsters would be on the outside having to stretch as much as possible. I even pointed that out to the asst. director designing the marching shows hoping that he would move me to the outside instead. Perhaps that's why we got a "3" - fair at marching contest? Thank goodness that I never had to march backwards though.

In Texas, the marching rules state that there should be overall movement 60% of the time. When I added it all up before the marching competition I was only moving about 20% of the time--a significant difference from what I previously accustomed to in prior years when we marched military style and I was moving about 90% of the show.