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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:29 pm
So I rent my intrument.
It's just so extremely funny.
Just a few months ago, my tenor sax broke.
The A would play the C.
My teacher tried fixing it, but when he fixed it another note would sound like a comepletely different note.
So he sent it to be fix and I got a older sax.
I have it back now.
And it's broken...AGAIN.
Now, I can't play the LOW notes.
The top part, the key where you put your thumb on and the silver thing gets pulled up?
And when you don't put your thumb on it, it stays ALL THE WAY DOWN.
Well, mine doesn't go down, its up.
I have a difficult time playing a low A and down.
At first I thought it was my problem, but later on when I was exploring my instrument while my teacher was teaching the other sections, I discovered this.
I told my teacher told, and his expression was just HILARIOUS, because we just got it fixed. LOL
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:05 pm
That's ridiculous! @_@ That repair shop should probably have their workers inspected or something!
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:26 pm
My rental tenor sax breaks multiple times per season. XD RENTALS SUCK!!!
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:31 pm
I (accidentally) broke the screw in my neckpiece. Now sometimes while I'm playing the whole thing swivels. If the shop keeps screwing up you might wanna check out a new place then.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:29 pm
Haha I don't even understand how band directors don't know what's going on with instruments. Especially tenors.
It sounds like with the A/C problem, the A/B pad was just a bit loose and maybe the key needed to be fixed. That should have made it better.
Also with the octave key (that's what it is btw :u), maybe the top screw needed to be loosened a little bit, that's why it would be so stiff. Or at least that's the most obvious/primary reason.
I can't even TELL you how many times my tenor has broken. It's super old, it doesn't even shine. Anyway, the first time it broke, the metal low-C pad cover (the metal part) completely fell off during a nighttime practice, and the metal rod that held it down came out of place. So for the rest of the night I couldn't play, and had a pad flailing around everywhere. It would have taken an entire weekend and more to get it fixed at a pro shop, so my dad went out and bought screws and helped me fix it. So a good job done only cost maybe $3, and it has held up well ever since.
Next time it broke, the octave key screw on the neck got stripped in the hole, so the entire pad/key was wobbly and loose and wouldn't play right. So I sat down one day and took it completely off and found another screw that would fit from the parts saxophone. It has still been on that sax to this day, and it plays just fine, even if the screw is just a bit long and sticks out some.
THIRD time it broke, I couldn't get out any of the left-hand lower notes (B, Bb, C#). I'm thinking this is just because of age because I can play those notes just fine on a brand new tenor. So we had to have it fixed on THE day of a huge competition at our school. It didn't really help but I was able to get out B and C#. The Bb wouldn't ever work. So that one is still hanging out, broken.
Now, I don't use that tenor anymore because I'm the only tenor in the symphonic band so I get my own pick of whatever tenor I want to use. Naturally, I picked the not-broken, brand new sax. And it is amazing.
Lesson learned: NEVER GET RENTED TENORS.
/rant biggrin
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:54 pm
AHAHAH well like my mom keeps saying a tenor sax costs too much >__>
anyways, my tenor sax is fixed, my teacher just bent the octave key down LOL. during my playing test he realized that my C# was wrong and so he fixed that too LOL.
weee, i mean the other tenor sax players never gets it broken i'm like the only one >__> and besides, the sax isn't that old anyways. LOL so i can't understand why it keeps breaking
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:30 pm
some brands just suck. Mine is an antigua winds, not an antigua.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:28 pm
Kazi Drake some brands just suck. Mine is an antigua winds, not an antigua. mines yamaha o__o or however u spell it LOL
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:59 pm
reminds me of when my brother finally saved up enough to get his own tenor sax, and then he ran into a pole (yes, holding the brand new sax) at a band review right before the concert competition...idiot...haha
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:28 pm
This sounds like a weird suggestion but if your talking about the octave key near the mouth piece have you tried using a rubber band to hold it down but only tight enough so that you could still push the key to raise it (this may hurt the instrument i dont know i play trombone)
If it is the octave key this happened to my friend and she did that and it worked if its not the octave key i dont know what your talking about cause i dont play sax
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