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COMMENT(S): The pipes|drums Survey
Published: January 01, 2008
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| I don't envy the pipe band association official tasked with crafting a policy that reflects these survey results.
Implementing caps on the size of every section while somehow managing to not effectively put a cap on total band size? Good luck. |
Published: January 01, 2008
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| I aggree with this that bands are getting too big. Level the playing field. What's so hard about it? 24 max for grade one, 20 max for grade two, 16 max for grade three. Bands can have a 1000 pipers on the rster but play no more than 24. At least then you will see more players going where they can play instead of sitting on the side lines bragging how they were a cape carrier for some first grade band when they should really be playing in grade 2. |
Published: January 01, 2008
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| Yeah but you'd then have the added problem of players moving away from their 'local' bands. I'd hate to think that the guys I'm teaching in our grade 4 band would have to move away to another band because we'd capped the size of it. I'm teaching for MY band's future - not someone else's.
Perhaps your proposal would work better if applied to grade 1 bands only? After all, there are very (if any) grade 1 bands in Scotland for example, that can claim to be true 'local bands'. |
Published: January 01, 2008
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| Sorry...2nd para was supposed to read "there are very few (if any)".........
Andrew - time for an edit facility :-p (Alternatively, I could reading my comments before posting! lol). | |
