Instead of receiving every message from the group individually you can choose to just receive one a day, this contains all the individual messages concatenated...
Well I got the swab and I can get it to go through the instrument. Just need to work a bit at looking more elegant while I do it. Thanks again Dave. I love...
Hi Jim Glad you got fixed up - you can always call in dyno-rod or the local plumber if you get stuck! I love the sound of the bari, one of my early jazz ...
Dear All Hi there. I've not popped my head up before, but have been a member for quite a while, avidly reading all the gems that have cropped over in the...
Hi Gerry..try a process of elimination....with your present setup and the mouthpiece in a reasonble position on the crook can you play a scale allbeit that it...
Is there anything preventing the neck going fully into the body? Are there any leaks especially in the higher notes holes or the octave holes. I found my...
I was having tuning problems a while ago. I got some good tips from the group. I too recently went from a 2 to a 2 and a half reed. I started playing sharp...
Hi Gerry and all. I've sometimes found, when my sax was behaving oddly, that one or other of the rods had got a bit loose and needed to be tightened with a...
Hello all. Does anyone know whether it's a good or a bad thing to put a little cork grease on the joint where the neck goes onto the body of the instrument?...
Hi A REALLY embarrassing confession here........just in case anyone else has been as SILLY as me and has similar problems! For about a year I have been having...
Dear All but especially Jim, Martin and Andrew - who were all kind enough to post their thoughts - I'm very, very sorry to have bothered you all - but I seem...
i am having problems counting and playing at the same time, i play evergreen tenor solo but cant keep the pulse going when the backing band starts. i have...
Hi bobby When I'm having problems with the timing of a piece - I always make sure I play the first beat of the bar to get the pulse. Then when I have it I add...
Hi gerry , you said you now have a rovner lig make sure yiu have put greese on the metal parts of it i even unscrew it and put abit on the thred and screw it...
Hi Carry, was wondering if maybe the thread without grease was preventing you from tightening it up properly so that the reed wasn't as secure as it should...
Amazing isn't it? We are all so fixated with how we play and what we may be doing wrong that no one thinks that it might not be us at all; obviously, a case of...
Hi Chris, thanks for the thought......I can't pretend to know....I am mystified!.............I dont tend to use the ligature tightly anyway, I get the sound I...
Hi all, have started out on the long road to learning to impro and have learnt qute a bit without having really produced anything musical at this stage but I...
Hi Chris....a few thoughts on these chords...D7#9..the 3rd is F# and the #9 is F....books tell you to play or think the #9 as an extension on top of the D7...
Hi chris Wouldnt the notes be D F# A with c# as the 7th and an E# (or F) as the 9th. This is assuming that you are looking at a major chord not a minor. as...
Hi Guys, I've been playin the alto for some 8 months now but I never know how useful chords are in sax. Could anyone tell me the usefulness and how to make one...