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	Scramble band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scramble band - also known as a scatter band - is a particular type of field-performing marching band with distinct characteristics that set it apart from other common forms of marching bands; most notably, scramble bands do not normally march.
		Scramble bands are generally student-run and tend to be smaller in membership than what one would expect from a marching band.
		The University of Pennsylvania Band (The Penn Band)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scramble_band (1141 words)

	Marching band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For bands that include a front ensemble (also known as the "pit"), stationary instrumentation may include orchestral percussion such as timpani, wood blocks, marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, chimes, as well as a multitude of auxiliary percussion equipment.
		When band members are marching in one direction but want to focus their sound in another, they may rotate their bodies at the waist, so that only the upper portion of the body faces in the direction of play.
		It is also common for band uniforms to have a stripe down the leg and light-colored shoes (or spats over dark shoes) to emphasize the movement of the legs while marching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marching_band (5184 words)

	Scramble Bands
		Scramble band "musicians" can often be found playing such items as mailboxes, kazoos, bagpipes, cellos and violins, oboes and perhaps scaffolding, all on the field.
		Scramble bands do use traditional instrumentation for their music, trumpets, drums, saxes etc. The songs' instrumentation is simply expanded to accommodate the other "instruments".
		Scramble bands are often mired in controversy and are usually only a couple of steps away from being disbanded (excuse the pun) by their school's administration.
	www.galactic-guide.com /articles/6R55.html (937 words)

	Scramble band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A scramble band is a particular type of field-performing marching band with distinct characteristics that set it apart from other common forms of marching bands; most notably, scramble bands do not normally march.
		In recent years, school scramble bands have come under pressure to calm their ways, as today's athletic departments have less patience for students' sometimes embarrassing attempts at humor.
		The University of Pennsylvania Band (The Penn Band) (http://www.pennband.net/)
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Scramble_band (786 words)

	Friends of the Virginia Pep Band, Inc. -- Scramble Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Scramble bands are likely to have people playing non-traditional instruments such as mailboxes (Columbia), mannequins (Princeton), or violins, slide whistles, and Poulan Weedwackers (us).
		Scramble bands are prone to dressing strangely and looking wacky - definitions of the uniforms tend to be spacious, and are generally supplemented and customized by distinctive hats, pins and buttons, creative individual fashion statements, and often outright costumes.
		Scramble bands overwhelmingly tend to be run by the students in them (and not by some faculty member).
	www.orangevest.org /scramble.htm (290 words)

	The Princeton University Band - Scramble Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Where a traditional band usually gets from one formation to the next through some precision marching, we typically scramble, a maneuver that can be described as "Entropy in Action" or "Random Incarnate." A well-executed scramble may look like a cross between a riot, a fire drill, and a half-off sale at Macy's.....
		Scramble bands' shows usually involve a clever script, with the music and formations acting as punchlines to the jokes.
		And while a traditional band may be accompanied by a color guard or twirlers, a scramble band is more often accompanied by people playing things you never thought of as musical instruments.
	www.princeton.edu /~puband/old/scramble-bands.html (320 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate movement – usually some type of marching – with their musical performance.
		Many U.S. universities had bands before the twentieth century, but the Purdue University band was the first to play on a sports field in a formation other than a concert shell or parade block (they formed a 'P' in 1907).
		Bands may also be led by a more traditional conductor, especially during field shows, where a stationary conductor on a ladder or platform may be visible throughout the performance.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Marching_band (3938 words)

	De
		The pep band is supposedly monitored by a group consisting of the various elements of the University such as faculty, students, etc so it is difficult to understand why the skit this year was allowed.
		For those who have never seen the UVA pep band and I don't believe it was aired on television at the Tire Bowl because President Casteen was not in attendance and couldn't locate a tape of what transpired, it is a departure from what one normally expects to see.
		UVA is one of approximately 12 schools in the country who have "scramble" bands and they don't think of themselves as bands in the usual sense.
	www.ramfanatic.com /Misc/deja_vu.htm (1001 words)

	Friends of the Virginia Pep Band, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are an organization committed to preserving the scramble band tradition at the University of Virginia and supporting the continued operations of the Virginia Pep Band.
		The Pep Band's "scramble band"-style shows feature an invigorating blend of energetic music and creative humor that (we believe) is far more interesting than the staid performance style of a conventional marching band.
		As a result of these moves, the Pep Band was stripped of its primary performance venue and lost nearly all of the funding it relies upon to buy new music and uniforms, to repair its instruments, and to travel to events away from the UVA grounds.
	www.orangevest.org (727 words)

	Instrumental Groups
		The Villanova Band is open to all who have the desire to pursue music as an extracurricular activity at Villanova.
		The Villanova Band operates as the University's Pep Band, Scramble Band, and Concert Band all in one.
		In addition, students can join the Jazz Band regardless of whether or not they are in any of the other bands.
	www.villanova.edu /studentlife/music/groups/instrumental.htm (389 words)

	The HooK: NEWS- Down, not out: Band fights to "stay alive"
		Cavalier Marching Band Drum Major David Knight verifies that UVA pays stipends to marching band members, but says the payments are designed to cover food and other expenses of holiday-time performances, and vary in amount from show to show.
		However, Marching Band member Knight notes that 60 student leadership and on-field conducting opportunities are available with the new group, and all the movements on field are student-designed.
		To the chagrin of Pep Band members, the marching band also recruits students from Piedmont Virginia Community College (13 students in all are in the current line-up).
	readthehook.com /stories/2005/11/10/newsDownNotOutBandFightsTo.html (960 words)

	Princeton University Band - Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Princeton University Band, founded in 1919, is one of less than a dozen scramble bands in the country.
		A "scramble band" is kind of like a "marching band", only with less formality, more funniness, and
		Whether or not you play a musical instrument, if you are a Princeton student or alumnus, we invite you to join the Band.
	www.princeton.edu /~puband (279 words)

	May/June Tidbits
		Marching bands have existed in some form for as long as there have been organized armies with access to some kind of instruments.
		Bands grew out of the military where there were thousands of people who needed to move in the same direction, all together, and not trample each other.
		In the 1800's the band movement spread across the country, culminating with Patrick Gilmore's band and the Sousa Band.
	www.bandnotes.info /tidbits/tidbits-may.htm (911 words)

	The University of Pennsylvania Band
		The band was almost immediately in demand for official and unofficial student rallies, student parades, and even vaudeville.
		The slow metamorphosis of the Band from a military style marching band to a sweater and slacks scramble band began as early as the 1940's.
		With women now in the band and the cost of the blazers rising, the Band decided to don a blue all wool sweater with a red "P" and white pants.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~pennband/history.html (631 words)

	A high school band opts for collision over precision \| csmonitor.com
		He'd discovered scramble bands last spring, when a student – who had no time for marching – directed him to a scramble-band website.
		Where some school bands were practicing 12 hours a day all week long last summer, White's group practiced for a jolly two hours, five mornings, one week.
		The scramble band's time factor kept senior Ben Jarosch, a trombone player, from dropping out: "I am in cross country, and last year...
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0911/p02s05-ussc.html (821 words)

	The Daily Iberian
		Thirty-six teams of four golfers participated in the scramble, in which each player tries to hit a ball closest to the pin in one swing.
		The scramble was followed by a poolside party at the Squirrel Run clubhouse featuring Smith's band and a fashion show by Ricki's.
		The shelter was on the verge of closing its doors due to a lack of funding.
	www.iberianet.com /articles/2006/06/17/news/news/news60.txt (336 words)

	Interests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Penn Band is a "scramble band" which means that during football season, the band runs around on the field while someone over the loud speaker makes jokes about Penn and/or the opposing school.
		During basketball season, the band is a typical pep band.
		In addition to playing the drums, while I was in the band I visited all seven other schools in the Ivy League multiple times, went on two NCAA paid trips, and saw other schools in the big 5 and the patriot league.
	www.stwing.upenn.edu /~ksledge/interests.html (460 words)

	Oklahoma Scramble
		Oklahoma Scramble were an Olympia, WA band that existed for a brief time in about 1986 or 1987.
		Just that we weren’t ever really an ambitious band at all, and yet we were surrounded by this very serious, sanctimonious sort of pop-underground culture, the Calvin-worshippers and all.
		I just would hope that people not think of us as a “band.” I guess I keep harping on this but making music, coming up with something new that gives you a kick, is what’s fun, especially when you can do it with other people.
	www.appelstein.com /cif/okscram.html (4119 words)

	Villanova University Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Emphasizing the musical nature of the band, the concert band plays a wide range of music from all time periods.
		The Villanova Band is anything but a traditional marching band.
		The Jazz band is comprised of members and nonmembers of the regular band.
	www.vuband.com /about (484 words)

	GAB // Band, Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Brown Band is a completely student run musical group founded in 1924 to play at sporting events.
		The Band plays at all football games in the fall in the traditional scramble band style of the Ivy-League; no marching for us.
		In the winter we gear up for hockey to become the first ice-skating band in the world.
	www.brown.edu /web/gab3/view.php?id=14 (137 words)

	The Virginia Pep Band
		The cameradery among scramble bands has given me a network of friends around the country, and memories of roadtrips unparalleled.
		Her frame is kept atop the highest shelf in the Band instrument closet, and the one head that survived four years of scrambling with me hangs in my apartment, covered with the signatures of all those who scrambled beside her at that last game.
		The Virginia Pep Band Constitution of 1995 - The Band finally ratified this constitution in 1998.
	emacbeth.home.mindspring.com /Vapb/index.html (531 words)

	Pep Band's Last Stand (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		University officials confirmed that the new band, to be run under the auspices of the music and athletic departments, will supplant the infamous Pep Band at all sporting events.
		Although the new band is to begin playing in 2004, Littlepage acknowledged that the Pep Band has been disinvited for the coming season.
		He denied band members' accusation that it was underhanded of him to lock their instrument closet, saying the athletic department needed to impose "inventory control" during the transition.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34946-2003Apr24¬Found=true (815 words)

	Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival
		The same voting system is used for the Band Scramble.
		Unlike the Band Scramble and the Song Contest, the Band Contest is scored by judges according to a strict scoring system.
		The winning band receives an an invitation to perform as a paid band in next year's Festival.
	www.wheelercountybluegrass.org (425 words)

	Rules for CSOTFA District 3 30th Annual Old Time Fiddle Contest
		Bands must play two old time fiddle style tunes of choice, a Fast Tune and a Slow Tune.
		Bands will be selected by drawing names from the categories designated at registration.
		Band Scramble registration closes two hours prior to the Band Scramble Contest.
	www.tehachapi.com /fiddlecontest/rules.htm (970 words)

	NPR : Band Politics at the University of Virginia
		NPR : Band Politics at the University of Virginia
		Talk of the Nation, September 8, 2004 ·; We consider an extracurricular controversy at the University of Virginia, where a traditional marching band has largely supplanted the more anarchic scramble band.
		William Pease, director of bands, the University of Virginia.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3896473 (148 words)

	Deathswan
		the band must pay royalties to their former lead man every time they perform one of their classic songs.
		the band and brought them to fame, left them three years ago.
		This "comeback" record should be released by the end of the year.
	hometown.aol.com /touchdownjets/dthswn.html (544 words)

	Bands Other Than the LSJUMB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We're not exactly sure what this band is doing these days, but when they used to do football, they scattered.
		Rec.arts.marching.band.college is the new, improved USENET college marching band newsgroup.
		Note that you don't have to be a member of an Ivy League band to join; it's for discussion of anything related to Ivy League/scatter-type bands.
	www.stanford.edu /group/lsjumb/otherbands.htm (283 words)

	Columbia Show – 10/26/02
		This proud Ivy League band tradition was recently summed up by Columbia Band Manager Thomas Berman, who said: “A scramble band is a band that doesn’t march.
		The Columbia Band has recently declared itself: “the preeminent scrambling humor force in the world.” Funny, we thought that was your football team.
		Sadly, of late, these wonderful band smurfs have been publicly maligned as “very self-important little creatures.” Perhaps, it’s because they’ve proclaimed themselves to be “the cleverest smurf band in the world.” Or perhaps it’s because one of them yapped all day long on the Phil Donahue show.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~dcmb/shows/2002/col.htm (602 words)

	kisrael.com \| one time at band camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I got to reading about Scramble Bands, where players just run from one formation to the next.
		In trying to track down a factoid that some Ivy League bands play in suit and ties, I found my way back to the site for the Columbia University Marching Band, aka CUMB, aka "the cleverest band in the world".
		I wish Tufts had had its act together to have a scramble band rather than just a stand band, we'd only take the field once or twice a year.
	kisrael.com /viewblog.cgi?date=2006.05.29 (306 words)

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