i am in the band.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A marching band is a group in which instrumental musicians perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, often of a military style, that includes an associated school or organization's colors, name or symbol. Most high school marching bands, and some college marching bands, are accompanied by a color guard, a group of performers who add a visual interpretation to the music through the use of props, most often flags and rifles. Marching bands are generally categorized by function, size, age, gender, instrumentation, marching style, and type of show they perform. In addition to traditional parade performances, many marching bands also perform field shows at sporting events and at marching band competitions. Increasingly, marching bands perform indoor concerts that implement many songs, traditions, and flair from outside performances. Percussion and wind instruments were used on the battlefield since ancient times. An Iron Age example would be the carnyx. The development of the military band from such predecessors was a gradual development of the medieval and early modern period.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never did marching band."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Me neither; a cool fat is that it was developed from the  military band."}, {"role": "user", "content": "oh really? Maybe they used it for formation or something."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That makes sense. Marching bands go all the way back to 1653 in the NH militia."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow thats quite old considering the instruments they had"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are lots of instruments; the main types are brass woodwind and percussion."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yea i imagine so since they are simple."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some can be rather complicated. Brass instruments sometimes have slides or valves to change the sound."}]