Klarinet Archive - Posting 000579.txt from 2000/03

From: klarANNette h satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] tenor saxophone
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:30:58 -0500

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:39:53 -0500 Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
writes:

>I just tried a Selmer SA80 Series III tenor today. Sweet horn, though
very
>expensive. It is so smooth it does not sound like it is made of metal!
>Can play very prettily soft in the upper octave, yet has guts at the
bottom
>end. They've made some interesting mechanical improvements to the left
>hand table keys. The Bb key actually moves closer to the B and C# as it
>tilts.

If i were doing much playing of the '30's Conn tenor, (the last of family
heirloom instruments), the left pinky keys would be a problem. The G#
key is a killer.
Ttalk about the horn that got away--he had a gold plated bari sax!

> And the heights of the right hand Bb and C keys have screw
>adjustments. I have not played a Mark VII for comparison, though. As I
>understand it, the Series III is NOT a replacement for the Series II,
but
>another model. Maybe it will be like having the Mark VI and Mark VII
out
>simultaneously - YOU chose the sound you want!

There is a radical concept(g)

annhall

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Ann Satterfield
clarinetist and teacher
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