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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:53 pm
anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band...
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:20 am
LHS_Squirrel anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band... yea its a Soprano sax....i play it in my band along with alto
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:10 pm
RiKu-cHaN516 LHS_Squirrel anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band... yea its a Soprano sax....i play it in my band along with alto actually, unless u have some weird model, the soprano is in the key of Bb, like the tenor.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:12 pm
LHS_Squirrel RiKu-cHaN516 LHS_Squirrel anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band... yea its a Soprano sax....i play it in my band along with alto actually, unless u have some weird model, the soprano is in the key of Bb, like the tenor. wow i never posting on gaia when im in skool in the morning again...........i feel rellie dum......your right soprano is in Bb..........when you find out what C melody sax is called pm me.......sounds really interesting
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:33 pm
RiKu-cHaN516 LHS_Squirrel RiKu-cHaN516 LHS_Squirrel anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band... yea its a Soprano sax....i play it in my band along with alto actually, unless u have some weird model, the soprano is in the key of Bb, like the tenor. wow i never posting on gaia when im in skool in the morning again...........i feel rellie dum......your right soprano is in Bb..........when you find out what C melody sax is called pm me.......sounds really interesting i'd much rather post it here, in case others want to know as far as i know its just called a C Melody Saxophone. Now, they are really rare because i dont think they make them anymore; i only got mine because of a relative. The one that i have is in bad condition but, surpisingly, there are places that will refurbish them. I mean, chem wash, new pads, the works. We're gonna get it to one of those places probably this summer. If i get any more info on the sax, ill be sure to post it here!
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:20 am
C Melody saxes were made for the purpose of playing in orchestras and symphonic bands. Apparently they didnt really catch on i guess they had alot of problems with the intonation. They are still around you can find em at garage sales and pawn shops. It's hard to find the right mouthpiece for it as well as reed since it's kinda big.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:54 pm
well, from the info on it that i found, u can use a tenor reed on it. but yeah, the mouthpiece must be so hard to find because it uses this screw mechanizm which locks the mouthpiece on. its really weird
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:05 am
^ HornFreak knows everything.... eek
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:26 am
If you find a C melody saxophone, it's a relic. They probably stopped making them b/c of the higher percentage of C intruments.
But then again, not too many of those are in a marching band..bassoon, flute, piccolo, melodics, all we have in the key of C.
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:12 pm
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:52 pm
I think my section leader might have a C melody sax... or some kind of sax thats in a weird key. I've never seen it, though.
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 6:54 pm
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 7:20 pm
i paly alto sax, but i rele want to learn soprano. not rele learn, but get used to the smaller mouthpiece. and i never heard of that c melody sax, sounds weird.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:02 pm
LHS_Squirrel anyone ever heard of a C melody sax? i got one recently from a relative of mine and it's so cool! apparently, it's in the key of C. I dont know about you, but i had never heard of such a thing. i was amazed. we're hoping to get it refurbished for use. oh it would be so cool to play that in band... I think I've heard of that before... I also think I heard that they have saxes in, like, G and A and stuff like that. There was originally like a sax for every key... or something close to that. But then they narrowed it way down to what there is today. So all the others are really rare now.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 6:27 pm
okay, so I'm new to the section.
I played alto for the first time yesterday. I started for college. I'm a senior in high school and a double reed who does pit and crash for marchign season. I'm going to be in a military style band in college, so I needed something new. XD heart
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