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Rachael · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:49 am Post subject: Issuing of new instruments

Just wondered what happened about the issuing of new instruments in the RMB.
Is it better to keep your own or is there the option of upgrading to a better one etc. ?

Are there certain makes/models that the marines prefer to use?

thankyou.

admin · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

You are issued with an istrument when you complete basic training. Certain soloists are given a 'select' instrument (they do have some input into the make etc) when they reach certain stages in their career and become principal instrumentailsts. If you want to use your own instument then you can but it is at your own risk. No gold instruments for parade work...
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Hornblower · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

I loooove the amount of attempts at that long word up ^ there Deli!!

Boy came good at the end though

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Siegfried · Sergeant Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 586 Location: London

Hey HB - give the lad a fair crack of the whip,mate - lookit the time of posting....?

On a Friday ? - at that time of night ? After how many drinks ?

...wonder the lad can see the kb...

- really sounds good,dunnit?

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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:19 am Post subject:

admin · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

Spilling is not my string pint when i'm tried and my glasses are point glarses
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Rachael · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:

thanks for the reply

RAB · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

tee hee..

(sory, two bizy for a reely cheakie repli)

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Baaaaaaaaaaass · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject:

If you're a bass-holder, I heartily recommend buying your own guitar.

My issued one didn't work when I got it and as I was a sprog I was instructed that I "better have it working by Monday morining, Baaaaaaaaaaass."

My nimble fingers made it functionable, but it's like a bloomin' MFI coffee table and weighs about 10 stone.

My lovely 30lb Black Cherry sex-machine bass is much nicer on the ear, eye and back!
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RAB · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

Don't know about nowadays Rachael..But in my day they appeared to send them all to FOSNI (Scotland) Band..

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bootybandy · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

It certainly hacked me off when I left in 1995. Up until then you were allowed to buy your own instruments upon discharge, but some Staff Officer decided that they would stop it. So after 24 years of playing Saxamaphone, clartinanet, and violinski, they said, "On yer bike, no can do".

Peeved of Alverstoke.....
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eastney hooker · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

Stopping us buying our old instruments was the best thing they ever done.

For a wee bit over 10 years, the music lovers of Fife had to put up with me battering the living day lights out of some of the finest percussion instuments the corps could buy.

Making them suffer even more by giving me my old kit would have been just too much to ask!!!

Considerate of Fife.

ps. I really looked after my kit and like BB I was gutted when it had to go back. The chance to purchase, plus the possibility of an extra parade from Dan and other DM's, was an incentive to take care of your instrument.
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