Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 1999/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] sax trouble
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:16:57 -0400

At 03:34 PM 7/4/1999 -0400, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>I think it was the jazz musician Ornette Coleman who got into experimenting
>with a plastic sax sometime in the 1950s. I cannot listen to his music
>long enough to figure out what he got from a plastic horn as opposed to one
>made of metal, but he must've heard something in the sound that he felt he
>needed, and that he could not get from a regulation saxophone.
>
I agree with your assessment of Coleman's music, but I assume he just used,
rather than developed, the Grafton sax. Whatever he saw in it was
apparently seen by few others, since the horn was not in production long,
and remains a rare and not all that sought-after item.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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