The Stars and Stripes Forever with 94 piccolos! [4K]

Finale from our 2017 Star-Spangled Spectacular, featuring 94 piccolos playing John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever".

Jeff Gershman conducting. Piccolo soloists: Margaret Shin Fischer, Kathy Johnson, Tim Hagen and 91 others. (We set the World Record last year with 189 piccolos.)

[harrisondixon]

I love how the brass is louder than 94 piccolos

[timmaher]

*Sees title*

Me: *shudders* I don’t want to imagine why tuning was like.

[Dylan-zfxh]

When 76 trombones and 110 cornets weren’t enough

[ctatheist]

Organizer: "How many piccolos should we get?"
Director: "ALL OF THEM."

[heidielliott]

Band teacher: Piccolos are meant to be HEARD.

[eldunari]

If that title doesn’t strike fear into your heart, idk what will

[brad]

Non-Americans: "America, why are you always so extra?"
Americans: "OMG, we are not!"
94 Piccolo Players: "Speak for yourself."

[jeremysolomon]

“So, how many piccolos you want?”
Director: “yes”

[Grace-whky]

for the first five minutes I was looking at the piccolos, and I was like, "There aren't even 94 players in that band, wtf"
Skips to 5:00
*Lord save us all*

[sydrefugia]

That moment when the camera panned over the 91 piccolos in the back had me in tears

[bonetonelord]

I'm pretty sure using that many piccolos is against both the 8th Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

[ambrosiusrex]

Played this to my budgie:




It turned into a bald eagle.

[sovidquack]

Me: is it just me or did i got clickbaited?

*Some minutes later*

Me: oh..

[roxanner]

I was one of those piccolo's, with my mom and band director!!!

[wesleypeters]

The unfurling of the flag gave me goosebumps.

[dwheald]

Finally somebody understands that Stars and Stripes should be a piccolopalooza (piccolopocolypse?). There should be 1000 more.

[kendrajohnson]

I’ve played the piccolo for 9 years and never in my life have I ever seen more than two play together

[jordancheema]

Its a shame someone pulled the fire alarm

edit: it was the piccolos, my bad

[andrewmelita]

I didn’t even know this many people played piccolo

[djcfrompt]

Stars and Stripes Wars: Revenge of the Picc