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RE: Sax Reed

Author: Dave
Date: 2000-11-16 04:55

Not sure what a clarinetist would think but the original C* used for classical and widely regarded as the best classical piece is a bit too closed for tenor a D is more in order. Now alto that is a different story, the LT's are amazing it's the only piece I'd accept for classical. The lower notes are really hard to get the first few weeks or months of playing sax. You'll get these eventully. One of the things that you might need to do, is lay the heel of your toung as low down as possible and open your throat more. Sometimes it's a combination of opening one and closing the other, it's generally good to keep an open throat (as you do through the altissimo reigster) but sometimes you have to decrease the oral cavity to make the conical bore of the instrument more complete.

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