Klarinet Archive - Posting 000597.txt from 1998/05

From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Sax without a strap [was RE: [kl] C Clarinets, and mixups]
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:01:24 -0400

All this talk of playing without a strap sounds like unsafe sax to me.

At 08:42 AM 5/12/98 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
>On Tue, 12 May 1998, Justin Wood wrote:
>
>> I've never marched with a Bari, but in all my practicing with it I
>> finally ditched the neck strap because it got in the way.
>
>When playing the baritone saxophone without a neckstrap, how do you play
>open C#? That would be a sight to behold.

I'm waiting to see someone march with a bass sax and no strap. That'd be
truly awesome!

BTW, I'm currently doing a show with five instruments and a lot of
unreasonably fast changes. I've found that slipping the strap on the
soprano sax was more trouble than it was worth in this situation. But I
always make the effort to use it with the alto as soon as there's a long
enough rest.

Mitch Bassman
Burke, Virginia, USA

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