Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2000/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] How DID you learn saxophone
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:47:38 -0500

> At 10:08 AM 2/1/2000 -0800, Daniel Paprocki wrote:
>Here's a new topic. Most clarinetist play saxophone. How did you learn
>sax? Look at a fingering chart and go? sax lessons? read a book? Also how
>long did it take you to feel comfortable on the sax? What was the most
>difficult area? palm keys, low register? middle C? Ready, Set, GO!

When I was in school, the band director asked me to play sax in the jazz
band because the saxophone players either couldn't or wouldn't. I just went
with a fingering chart and the music. As for the other questions, I really
don't remember as it was over 30 years ago. Today if I happen to pick up a
sax, it's the lowest three notes on the instrument.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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