The leader of a military band directs the band with a kind of long stick that is pointed on one end and has a kind iron ball on the other. Similar instrument, but smaller and the ends usually have a rubber thingy, is used by girls that go together with bands in parades, sometimes they throw their sticks up in the air and the sticks sort of like draw circles in the air, and while doing this the girls do summersaults or twirl and wait for the stick to come down again. Hope I have describe the picture fairly well for somebody to help me with the answer. I appreciate your kind help.
2007-05-18 00:26:00 · 10 answers · asked by flaquita 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
A baton... though the baton used by a Drum Major (band leader) during parades is typically called a "MACE" (5-6 ft long), or it's smaller brother, the "Military Baton" (3ft long).
2007-05-18 02:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marching Band Leader Baton
2016-11-07 12:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in marching band in high school and recently graduated (07). Sorry if I don't qualify. 1. I had 2 band directors. My first one was there freshman to junior year. (He was there a total of 6 years.) The band director my senior year just left this summer (after 2 years) to pursue a higher degree. 2. 14 years 3. I marched clarinet and trombone in high school, but I play basically any wind instrument (minus horn lol). 4. It dwindled from 80 to around 40 when I graduated. This year it has about 30? 5. When I was captain my senior year, 5 of the 8 were girls. Not sure how it is now, but I doubt it's changed that much. 6. I loved my senior year show because it was an abstract theme. We also did a show based on Saturday morning cartoons, which was fun because it had the audience laughing. 7. We always had 2 (basically because of tradition). When I left it got cut down to 1. 8. I was a section leader for 3 years: 2 on clarinet and 1 on trombone/baritone. 9. No, I didn't, and I wish my school had had a winterguard because I think that would have been fun. 10. Our school has a rival because we were the first two built in the county way back when. As for band, no not really. We're the smallest band in the county and the only one in our class, so there wasn't exactly anyone to "compete" against. A lot of kids in the band come from out of district though (magnet program), so they have "mini-rivalries" with the people their district, you know friends they had in middle school.
2016-03-19 00:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A band leader's instriument of choice is the baton, which comes in many forms. One, being about 36-40" in height, is more for parades, whereas the other, being 10-16" long, is the preferred choice of the orchestral conductor.
2007-05-20 20:17:25 · answer #4 · answered by du$tin cha$e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the stick you're referring to has to be the BATON
2007-05-18 00:30:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you thinking of a baton? That's all I can think of fitting your discription.
2007-05-18 00:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by DOT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
baton
2007-05-20 07:41:25 · answer #7 · answered by pro am 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
baton
2007-05-18 20:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
baton
2007-05-18 18:57:23 · answer #9 · answered by Samantha A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
baton
2007-05-18 00:30:19 · answer #10 · answered by jennifer l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋