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Show 38 in the sQ<)ring at the halt.,time perl'od. A qu.1ak correction is I!Hld$ AS soon as the errOl? is dis covered and the wod of greeting is restored to its proper order. A somewhat similar mistake in the spelling of the word tJDADS, tf the tm.porary $ubstl tu. tion of • nut' tQ'P the A' has been suggested but has never been used. Th $de werd acquirec speoial signi.fios.tlc6.l 8. t the hands of one d1r'0ctor when h$ draw a p .. rpendicular line through the "a" to produce the dollar sign. throuih .. On one ocoasion the Univepstty of Chicago band, not having enough players to spell tt &n t1r$ wod uILLINI,ff fo,rtned all but the .final let In a quandary over this failure, the Clvwn ter. major eventually sought help from the memb,er$ of the Illinois band. A group or the rival bandsmen ran onto the f1$1d. to form the final fir" and so This Via-a all complete the word and the salutf>. of oou1?se it but made an eff'eQtive preara.nged, .. stunt and amu$d the speotators no end. Bather serious trom a muaieal standpoint WQ$ the failu.re 01." anothr Big 'fen direoto!» to plt'operly instruct the operator o£ th& publio address syst6m It was necessary in tha c cur-s e of this partioular n rGutine to have $, up. A. annottnaement made trom th$' sidelines. and immediately following the an nouncement the hand was to pl_., an arnngement of special interest to the home s ehool. Follow-inl the announcement the field mlcr(!)phone was left open with the result that the music was relfily-ed throu.gh the loud .. sp'enkers looated at one end of the field. The tim@ lag whioh resulted would hav$ the music for the audience in any ease) spoiled but the situation was aggr'Elvated by the tEwt t.hat about half the band members tim.:s their playing to aglf'ee wi th the music which they heard from th.. Result: sY$rQl publ10 address loudspeakers! (no Qn knows how many) uneoordinated perrormanees or the sam tune baing executed simultaneouslyl This error was one which could de.fin1 tely b e charged to. the band director fQr his failure to insist upon a rull dress rehearsal with the publio address system. in operation. Even with the uost care in organization an |
