Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2000/02

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] How DID you learn saxophone
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 02:44:36 -0500

>>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!

i began alto sax when i was senior in high school. There was a
'tradition' that the top of the clarinet section doubled to play in the
jazz band. I was interested because i had grown up hearing jazz because
that is what my father listened. The band director loaned me his Selmer
alto to practice on (interesting, he was a brass major while in school
but played ww so well that he played lead alto in the best dance band in
the area for many years)
I took a copy of the Ruband Elementary Method home with the sax about 3
weeks before jazz band began practicing. Played lead alto because the
concert band alto players weren't interested.

Initially the hardest fingering for me was the middle C. I must have
unknowingly copied the sax hand position from some good example because i
didn't have much trouble with the palm keys.
Got a good deal on a used Selmer Mark V alto, and played that thru
college. Enjoyed pit orchestra work, and played several years in various
community theater productions. Sold the alto about 10 years later as i
wasn't using it to finance A clarinet for orchestra work.
Last year i had two saxophone students and so got out the family heirloom
Conn tenor sax(model just after naked lady), had the repairman get it in
playing condition.
The jazz band experience was very helpful when i began orchestra playing,
both for the knowledge of style when playing pop music, and the volume of
sound and aggresiveness appropriate for some orchestral music.

annhall

~Ann H Satterfield~
Principal Clarinet
Imperial Sym.Orch.
Lakeland, Florida

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