Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 2009/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Alto Sax Mouthpieces (again)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:08:43 -0500

At 02:34 PM 2/19/2009, Kurt Heisig wrote:
>And then there is everything hanging on that looooong upper stack rod.....

Yeah, but that was a holdover from the original 1920's Buescher
design. I only object to the fact that the update was every bit as
poorly conceived, maybe more so, despite 50 years of advances in
saxophone design.

>-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
> >Sent: Feb 18, 2009 8:33 PM
> >To: klarinet@-----.org
> >Subject: RE: [kl] Alto Sax Mouthpieces (again)
> >
> >At 08:40 PM 2/17/2009, Kurt Heisig wrote:
> >>Bill,
> >>
> >>I was grumbling on the bench the other day about the illogical way
> >>the keys are put on the horn.
> >
> >The Bundy II table key layout is just poorly conceived. The angles
> >are bad, the leverage is bad, the C# has tremendous slop in its
> >action. When starting from scratch, working for the company that
> >imports the saxes made by the company that created the "Balanced
> >Action" design with the right-side bell keys, you would think they
> >could have done a much better job.
> >

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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