Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2000/02

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] How DID you learn saxophone
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:52:48 -0500

Daniel A. Paprocki asked:

<<<How did you learn sax? Look at a fingering chart and go? sax lessons?
read a book?>>>

In my senior year of high school, my band director finally gave in an lent
me a school sax. He had no choice -- all of his sax players had just
graduated. Fooled around w/ it over the summer, and then had some excellent
lessons from Bill Wicker (one of those sickeningly fantastic doublers) who
showed me that switching wasn't hard at all.

<<<Also how long did it take you to feel comfortable on the sax?>>>

Two months.

<<<What was the most difficult area? palm keys, low register? middle C?
Ready, Set, GO!>>>

Low register -- my principal problem w/ saxophone today. I also have
problems with saxophone altissimo, which is counter-intuitive given the
amount of altissimo clarinet (and Eb !) that I play in the wind ensemble.
Fortunately, the sax work I do (mostly show work) does not require a Sigurd
Rascher 4 octaves.

kjf

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