Klarinet Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 1999/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Low Sax Notes
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:52:24 -0400

The Lafleur brand name belongs to Boosey & Hawkes, and has done for quite
a long time. All sorts and conditions of cheap(ish) instruments have
appeared bearing the name.
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, J. Thole wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:45:26 +0200
> From: "J. Thole" <jthole@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Low Sax Notes
>
>
> ----- 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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