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So we have a thread on reeds i thought i might make one on what you play/sing in general. Tell us about your instrument if you sing then what kind of range do you have and what part do you sing. Tell us about your general instrument setup is it unique to only you?


I'm mostly a tenor sax player looking for a better horn in the future. Currentlymy tenor sax is an Antigua Winds student model that i handpicked from a bunch of the same models. I thought it sounded the best out of all of them and it was al i could afford.
My Mouthpieces vary but i mostly play on a Claude Lakey 4*5 with size 3 hemke reeds (when i have them available)
The ligature i use is a bright rovner which suits my playing style nicely.


My alto sax is atually better then my tenor
It's a Yamaha Custom 875 I dont play on the stock mouthpiece i use a Rousou size 5 and use another bright rovner for the ligature. The reeds are usually size 2 1/2 or 3 since i dont normally play alto very much.

My clarinet is a Yamaha Advantage which is still a student horn but i'm not that great of a clarinet player so it doesnt matter it's sufficient for doubling.

My soprano sax is also an Antigua Winds it's a silver laquer finish with gold keys it's actually a pretty sucky horn and it needs several adjustments so it can play up to speed again.
I use a 5 Rousou with 2 1/2 whatever reeds really cuz my emboucher on that one needs ALOT of work. Again the same kind of ligature.


What's your setup?

I'm using a Yamaha Custom 875EX alto sax. My mouthpiece is a Meyer, six tip opening for jazz and a Selmer Cstar tip 5 for classical, I use Vandoren Java and Blue Box reads. On my Soprano I'm using a Cannonball Big Bell, with A ThunderBolt Mouth piece, tip seven, and blue box reads. Flute, I use a Trevor James Cantabile II

oh yeah and i own a vito alto but it's a beater horn with the same mouthpiece setup.

As I'm sure hornfreak knows, I have my baby YS-875 just like him (cept mines not as beaten up). I use the stock mouthpiece, however I'm going to get either a claude lakey like him or selmer c* or this new one I just heard about... 8301 or something. I use an Olegature for a brighter, jazzier sound, and play on 3 1/2 Vandoren ZZ. I also have 2 other altos: a student Jean Babtiste and a vintage Pan American (made by conn).

Tenor wise, I have T-901 Yanagisawa with stock mouthpiece (Again! ><), stock lig, and more Vandoren ZZ 3 1/2s.

Clarinet wise, I have a brand new R-13 with cork pads where they should be, Moening and Chadash pro barrels (66cm each), Vandoren M 15 and M 14 mouthpieces, a silver optimum lig, and I play on 4 1/2 V12 Vandoren reeds. My other clarinets include a student (but still wood) E-11, a decent King clarinet, and an ancient clarinet, again from the 60s. The last one isn't even playable at the moment.

My Piano is whirlitzer upright. I got from a thrift store for $200, sure the outside may be beat up but it sounds wonderful, the low end is really rich. And it's better than the crappy Yamaha 5 octave keyboard I had been playing on for 4 years.

After renting a holton beginner trumpet for 5 years, I finally got a trumpet to call my own. I don't know who made it but it appears to have been made in 1937. I also have a cornet that my music teacher gave to me.

Finally, I have an epiphone bass, which sounds pretty good when walking.

My main setup as a keyboard/pianist is my 88 key Technics SX-P50 digital piano with a Roland JV-80 for non key instrument samples and a Korg DW-8000 for synth stuff, and then a few Casio's for midi, which I either link to the JV-80, my DR-5 drum machine, or a vintage Yamaha FB-01 mod. Speaking of vintage vintage, I have an ancient Wurlitzer tube driven electric piano and a rare Baldwin BC-1 combo organ, but they don't get taken out of the house much.

For bass, I play either a Washburn 5 string, or, (my favorite) 4 string SX fretless with gold trim and a quilted top. I usually just go through my 20 watt microbass amp, and sometimes I process it through my Behringer Tube Composer comp/lim.

Where set percussion is concerned, I play through an old Tempro set from the mid 70's. The snare is a Ludwig, the stands are yamaha, and the cymbals are Sabian hats and rock crash, and Zildjian Dark Ride and Dark Crash.

For hand percussion, I play a custom-carved African Djembe from Ghana (forget how to spell the type of wood) with goat skin. I'm not sure any of the details on my tabla, or any of my other percussion stuff for that matter, because frankly, other than the djembe, I don't play it often enough. I do use my Boss DR-5 and DR-202 drum machines quite often though.

My sax, as I've mentioned before, is a YAS-23 Yamaha Alto. No frills, though the occasional Rico Royal 3 will go in the mouthpiece, which I'm intending to replace sometime soon. Also in woodwinds: A yamaha in-line flute that isn't really mine but that I borrow from time to time anyway for recording, and a diatonic bengal sideblown flute from india. I have an Alexander wood clarinet, too, but it's broken right now.

Recording Gear: probably the most important bit of all, I record through a Lexicon Omega interface using an SM-81, SM-58's, SM-57's, a few AT HC Dynamics, a Samson C03, and I'm about to buy an MXL V69 Mogami edition tube microphone. For effects, I run through a Behringer Vintager Tube Composer, and the rest I process software, though I will eventually have some more hardware.

What am I forgetting? Oh yes... guitars.. Last, not least, but almost least. I have an Alvarez Artist Series classical, a Washburn steel string (that I got for free), and a Fake-son Fake-Paul Fake-stom made with genuine fake-ogany wood. that is to say, the person that bought it for me didn't know what the hell it was and got screwed.

Such a sad story.

Indeed, that's the point.