Klarinet Archive - Posting 000473.txt from 2002/07

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass Sax
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:14:05 -0400

In the forties, a man by the name of Herbert Guy went from school to school
here in the south (Tennessee, Alabama, & Georgia, I know) and started school
bands. I gather he was sort of a "Music Man" type character, and from all
accounts, he was a character. One way you could always tell that he had
established a particular school's band was the fact that in the instrument
room, in various states of repair, was a bass sax. In the fifties, I played
the one at our school, occasionally, when I was in high school. My biggest
objection to it was it sounded like a metal shop! Most of the clanks didn't
make it past the curtain line, but it was unnerving! It played fairly
easily and reasonably well in tune, but the repairmen could never get all of
the clanks out of it.

Jim Hobby

>From: "Laurence Young" <klarinette@-----.net>
>
>Also if you check out the Ken Burns series on Jazz,
>you'll see lots of pictures of old bands who included bass
>saxes.

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