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| I was born with a sax in my hand! |
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 Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:45 pm
Tacincala This is my 6th year playing the alto saxophone. I love playing it, but I need a new instrument. My director knows someone that will let me bring home a brand new Selmer Omega for a week. Does anyone know how good they are? Hm....well, all I know is that Selmer comes up with great stuff so...I'd imagine that one would live up to the reputation...But I have a Yamaha....she's nice. whee
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:44 am
Durza the Shade I can sort of be considered a saxophone player now. I'm playing tenor for pep band, but I've only put the thing together twice and I'm still learning the fingerings. I'll get it soon enough, and no one cares if you don't sound good in pep band, anyway. XD Very, very true. Which was really good for me earlier in the year when I was still horrible. OMFG! I saw the coolest thing EVER earlier. I went to a concert with a couple friends and there was a ska/punk rock band with a tenor sax player. (And a trombone player, too.) But yeah... it was friggin' AWESOME. Rock sax. Hell yeah. 3nodding xp
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:26 am
Miangel Durza the Shade I can sort of be considered a saxophone player now. I'm playing tenor for pep band, but I've only put the thing together twice and I'm still learning the fingerings. I'll get it soon enough, and no one cares if you don't sound good in pep band, anyway. XD Very, very true. Which was really good for me earlier in the year when I was still horrible. OMFG! I saw the coolest thing EVER earlier. I went to a concert with a couple friends and there was a ska/punk rock band with a tenor sax player. (And a trombone player, too.) But yeah... it was friggin' AWESOME. Rock sax. Hell yeah. 3nodding xp Oh yea! whee
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:00 am
I heart Ska. The varied instrumentals were one of things that appealed to me about ska. Saxes can be used in a lot of music, too.
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:30 pm
I was at a battle of the bands that had a ska band with an alto sax and trombone. Unfortunately, some dipshit had the speakers that were hooked up to their mics turned around so you couldn't hear either of them gonk
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:09 am
Tacincala This is my 6th year playing the alto saxophone. I love playing it, but I need a new instrument. My director knows someone that will let me bring home a brand new Selmer Omega for a week. Does anyone know how good they are? Selmers are beautiful saxophones - probably the best you can buy...I have a Selmer Series III, and it is fantastic - it has the most gorgeous tone, I love it. However, I have never heard of a Selmer Omega. But the fact that it is a Selmer should have some significance - Selmer is generally a name to be trusted. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:38 pm
Nappy I was at a battle of the bands that had a ska band with an alto sax and trombone. Unfortunately, some dipshit had the speakers that were hooked up to their mics turned around so you couldn't hear either of them gonk Awful. gonk
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:55 pm
really, once you've played one sax, you've played them all, they're just in different keys, I started on Alto sax, then went to Bari, then to Tenor for 1 year, and now I never get to play tenor...oh well, I want a sop. sax, and Bass would be fun, but hard, I would need like a .5 reed lol and contrabass would be even better...
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:42 am
luthen.inadon really, once you've played one sax, you've played them all, they're just in different keys, I started on Alto sax, then went to Bari, then to Tenor for 1 year, and now I never get to play tenor...oh well, I want a sop. sax, and Bass would be fun, but hard, I would need like a .5 reed lol and contrabass would be even better... I was going to be switched to Tenor...but my director changed his mind. Thank god...I love being an alto better. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:11 am
Erisad luthen.inadon really, once you've played one sax, you've played them all, they're just in different keys, I started on Alto sax, then went to Bari, then to Tenor for 1 year, and now I never get to play tenor...oh well, I want a sop. sax, and Bass would be fun, but hard, I would need like a .5 reed lol and contrabass would be even better... I was going to be switched to Tenor...but my director changed his mind. Thank god...I love being an alto better. 3nodding I like tenor. 3nodding My BD switched me to it (I asked what I should play to get into jazz band), and I'm glad she did. ^^ I like it better than alto. Maybe it's 'cause I started on it... but I like the sound of it better, too. Even if I did have to get used to having harmony, which I wasn't used to, being a flute player.
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:31 am
Erisad Hm....well, all I know is that Selmer comes up with great stuff so...I'd imagine that one would live up to the reputation...But I have a Yamaha....she's nice. whee I have a Yamaha also. 3nodding A YAS 62II sweatdrop hehe. Our rental place was having a deal where you could apply all the rental fees you've paid to an new instrument. (Plus, they were already marked down! xp ) So I guess we got a good deal.
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:44 am
my alto is a yamaha, can't tell ya what model, but it is a Yamaha, I like their saxes, personally...what do you think of Steuben?
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:59 am
Alto saxophone, and I'm pretty good at it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:19 pm
I play Alto sax.. apparently I have good sound.. bah.
..I use a size 3 reed, I'm working my way up slowly, but surely.
I love my sax.. You were supposed to learn Clarinet at my school before you started playing the Sax, but I first played euphonium, and then trombone, and THEN I played Sax.. I was the teachers pet, haha so I never had to play Clarinet.
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:41 pm
This is my first year playing a instrument (unless you count the recorder) and I play the alto sax.
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