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Speaking of music
Dec. 14th, 2007 07:47 pmYesterday was my saxophone lesson. I came home with a different soprano sax than I had left with. Pictures soon. The upgrade did not cost much, and it's a MUCH better horn - not any shinier, but ergonomically much easier to play. The longer I take lessons, the more I learn about what works and what doesn't on an instrument with that many little moving pieces, that I had never thought about before.
I'm sure I had already mentioned my new bari sax mouthpiece, the Jody Jazz 6; I wound up getting almost the same model for the soprano sax, the 6* (pronounced six-star) [http://www.jodyjazz.com/hr.soprano.html]. I also got a new used mouthpiece for the tenor a couple weeks ago, a German make called Strathon, with a built-in reed holder, obviating the need for a ligature, AND a built in sliding baffle which can change the chamber shape, and thereby change the sound from fairly mellow (though still jazzier than my C-Star mouthpiece) to quite edgy. I could never have afforded one new, but used was do-able. It is the Adjustotone model. (Strathmann's web site has only minimal info about them, and no pictures; they seem to now be far more into making their alto flutes than their sax and clarinet mouthpieces - but here's a link, such as it is: http://www.strathmann-musicinstruments.de/gbpatente_u_lizenz.htm)
Today, we retrieved the fake tree and the pertinent ornaments from the storage unit; we'll get it up over the weekend and I'll take photos then. If it snows tomorrow, S will NOT be doing TubaChristmas outdoors at the harbor, so we'll get it up then, otherwise, it'll be Sunday.
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I'm sure I had already mentioned my new bari sax mouthpiece, the Jody Jazz 6; I wound up getting almost the same model for the soprano sax, the 6* (pronounced six-star) [http://www.jodyjazz.com/hr.soprano.html]. I also got a new used mouthpiece for the tenor a couple weeks ago, a German make called Strathon, with a built-in reed holder, obviating the need for a ligature, AND a built in sliding baffle which can change the chamber shape, and thereby change the sound from fairly mellow (though still jazzier than my C-Star mouthpiece) to quite edgy. I could never have afforded one new, but used was do-able. It is the Adjustotone model. (Strathmann's web site has only minimal info about them, and no pictures; they seem to now be far more into making their alto flutes than their sax and clarinet mouthpieces - but here's a link, such as it is: http://www.strathmann-musicinstruments.de/gbpatente_u_lizenz.htm)
Today, we retrieved the fake tree and the pertinent ornaments from the storage unit; we'll get it up over the weekend and I'll take photos then. If it snows tomorrow, S will NOT be doing TubaChristmas outdoors at the harbor, so we'll get it up then, otherwise, it'll be Sunday.
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