Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1999/07

From: "J. Thole" <jthole@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Low Sax Notes
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 05:45:26 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>

> I had a LaFleur bari - no-one has ever been able to tell me anything about
> this instrument! It was a small bari - no bottom A and quite closely
spaced
> keys, which suited me fine because I'm only 5'2'' and have small hands to
go
> with it. I have no idea what the mouthpiece I had was, but I could get a
> big, grunty sound out of it! We played an arrangement of "Tuxedo
Junction"
> which had me playing virtually nothing but bottom Bb for most of the
coda -
> I'd finish playing and wouldn't be able to see straight for the vibration.

I have never seen a LaFleur saxophone, but as far as I now LaFleur is a
London-based instrument maker. I think I have played the same arrangement of
Tuxedo Junction. As I remember it, it was very well suited to get rid of my
frustrations :-) Although I don't play bari anymore (it wasn't mine, so for
the moment I stick to clarinet and alto) I really love the instrument too.
For me, it's *the* big band instrument.

Johan Thole

BTW: does anyone know if there is a similar mailing-list for saxophone
players?

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