Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 2009/02

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: RE: [kl] Alto Sax Mouthpieces (again)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:54:00 -0500

Bill

MORE SO---I AGREE.

I didn't grouse about those to my old mentor. After all, it was a project done long ago before he walked out the door at BIG company. We were working on new design projects when Ralph passed away.

As the new HEISIGtm saxes get our there, and you get to work on them, I hope you like them and find them a lot easier to work on.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
>Sent: Feb 19, 2009 6:08 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Alto Sax Mouthpieces (again)
>
>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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