Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2000/02

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] How DID you learn saxophone
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:24:33 -0500

From: "Daniel A. Paprocki" <danbascl@-----.com>
Subject: How DID you learn saxophone
Message-ID: <B4BC6123.690%danbascl@-----.com>

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!

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When I was in high school I asked my band instructor if I could take a tenor
sax home over the summer. He said "sure" - as long as I would play it in
marching band in the fall. He gave me this monster sax that I swear was made
out of solid lead (it was grey and weighed a ton!). I just worked at it with
a fingering chart playing music I had around the house. I was proficient
enough to play it in the fall and to play in my first pit orchestra the next
spring.

The hardest part was RE-LEARNING how to play the low notes (which didn't
work on the sax I'd learned on!) when I got to play a brand new tenor in the
pit! Also, CARRYING that monster in marching band (I've since played BARI
saxes that didn't weigh even HALF as much as that tenor!)

-Scott

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