“Steve holds his breath as I suck all the air from the room into my lungs. I pause, then blow as hard as I can while squeezing my lips tightly together. The sound that comes out is not that of a sousaphone. In fact, it doesn't even come out of the bell above my head. The sound that escapes and reverberates throughout the long hallway did, in fact, start with F but ended in A-R-T, and it came out the opposite end!” MusicBandMarching BandSousaphone Book:Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music Source: Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music
“Lying on the ground, the instrument looks like a Venn diagram for toppings that belong on a pizza versus pineapple, two big separate circles. He lifts the whole thing up, minding the ceiling, sticks his head through the pineapple portion, and straightens the pizza portion to be a little flatter to the front.” PizzaToppingsPineappleSousaphone Book:Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music Source: Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music