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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:12 pm
I play the alto, like everyone else, but at one point I tried playing a bari sax--and oh my god. The power! twisted Muahahaha, I am dying to learn to play Bari. It's an amazing feeling to know that what you are pushing through the instrument results in this all-pervasive tone.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:25 pm
Yay saxes! I play alto, tenor and bari, and I teach saxophone at school. At our school band concert, I was playing bari and it was awesome! The first time I'd played bari in public. The sound was amazing, although you could say that I was a bit too... forceful.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:49 am
I play alto and tenor. Me and my section call ourselves the Sexy Saxes. There use to be six of us, but one graduated and two quit cry No worries though! We bounce back fast biggrin
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:18 am
I've done Alto, Tenor, and Bari sax as well. That Bari was hard to playing being only 5'1 1/2 and playing well. Kudos to anyone who's about my size and playing Bari. Some guys were saying I was "beasting it". That was last year though. I REALLY don't want to play Bari though if can help it.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:03 pm
hey what does anybody think about cannonball instruments. i played one recently and liked the sound and am considering getting one do any of you guyz know if they are any good???
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:28 pm
i think its gunna kill me when i play bari its hard enough trynna blow low notes on my tenor
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:53 pm
I play the alto and tenor. JAZZ BAND ROXS!!! 4laugh heart
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:16 pm
JuneAz I play the alto, like everyone else, but at one point I tried playing a bari sax--and oh my god. The power! twisted Muahahaha, I am dying to learn to play Bari. It's an amazing feeling to know that what you are pushing through the instrument results in this all-pervasive tone. Well if you currently play Alto, switching to bari isn't that hard. Bari just takes more air support, and generally more air, if your switching from flute the air support and quantity isn't that difficult to deal with, its just the key change. it isn't really that hard from tenor to bari either, but the key the instruments are in is different.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:35 pm
Hiya!
I'm in this guild but I never really post. [well duh, i'm in this guild]
I just recently Picked up the Alto sax.. [my original instrument is the cello]
So I am trying to get some information.. i'm looking to buy a Sax and yeah.
So it'd certianly be nice to hear from people who've been playing for a while [and know what they're doing =]]
Yup.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:42 pm
ALTO SAXOPHONE ROCKS!!!!! YAAAA!!!!
oh and btw symphony_master
start out with a student model, that's what i did and am still currently playing on (parents too cheap to buy me another one)
once you have had a few years on the student model, go to a music store that sells saxes and bring a mouthpiece and a reed, because you might have to try all that they have to find a good sax that you like...
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:47 pm
Thanks. Yuh. My rental sax just wne back to the shop because it was just too much money to rent the sax. I just have nothing to practice and i'm in concert band in an arts school. So its kinda scary.. Everyone is wayy better than me.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:08 pm
Symphony_Master Thanks. Yuh. My rental sax just wne back to the shop because it was just too much money to rent the sax. I just have nothing to practice and i'm in concert band in an arts school. So its kinda scary.. Everyone is wayy better than me. I got a rent to own saxophone....and it has been through a lot.... sweatdrop mighta dropped it a coupla times.....but it still plays well..... blaugh
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:50 pm
GAH! no! The Evil of student horns...... well unless you get them from a reliable manufacturer.* I actually started out my life in music on a Selmer intermediate clarinet, switching to a Yamaha intermediate sax the next year.
If you plan on playing through college you should actually start on a good intermediate horn, they're not that hard.
Take private lessons if everyone's better than you. not to mention they have a reason why they're so good, they've been playing longer.
My rent to own has been through a lot too. I've dropped it several times. my band director broke it. It dove of off a chair once (no seriously, nobody was within arms reach of it and it fell to the floor.) The instrument itself was amazingly unharmed, but the mouthpiece was broken, i got a new one two days later, and for christmas i got a C* i was thrilled. I keep waiting for my horn to finally kick the bucket so i can get a new shiny one. xd
*AKA don't get a Jupiter student horn. they suck, but from what i've heard the jupiter student brass aren't all that bad, jupiter just sucks at making woodwinds. Apparently they make instruments for DCI, which doesn't march woodwinds. so the field of woodwind manufacturing is relativly new to Jupiter.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:34 pm
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