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Author: Paul
Date: 1999-07-25 01:44
I'm really trying to find out if there are any lower notes than B on Soprano sax, I have clarinet and trumpet music which sometimes goes down to A and I don't want to bring it up the octave.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 1999-07-26 08:06
I only remember how I produced a low A on an alto sax:
Fingering low Bb and putting my leg over the bell.
If you want to play more than one semitone down, you would need an extension tube (which fits tightly into the bell), but I do not know how to operate all the additional keys you would need at such an extension tube.
Also an extension tube (for bass clarinets perhaps the mouthpiece cap) could alter the lowest tone one semitone down, then you would have a sax reaching to low A but without low Bb.
Arnold, the basset hornist (who's instrument has a vent hole a the bell, when closeing it, low C it pitched down to low Bnatural, too)
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Author: Andy
Date: 1999-10-19 20:37
Try putting a paper towel tube in the bell of your soprano and cut it to length to make the A in tune. It's rather inelegant, but the next gig you read trumpet music may pay for you to have it brass plated.
Good luck!
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Author: Tamyka
Date: 1999-11-15 04:06
I play bari, alto and soprano. With a soprano it's really easy to cover the bell a bit and relax your embouchure to pitch down a semitone in a hurry. (With a bari, this involves getting your lower leg up and over the bell!)
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Author: Hiro
Date: 1999-12-03 01:55
No. Shutting all the pad makes emit B. Then there are fanny ideas like paper towell in the bell....
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