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saxophone and pitch

Author: rubricyte
Date: 2005-10-11 15:29

My clarinet-playing daughter wants to start doubling on the tenor sax. My question is this: do any of you know if saxophones have the same pitch differences as clarinets - i.e., between those made for the American market and those made for the European market? I've been doing a little looking at used saxes and have been told that the yts-25 (now yts 275) is the european version of the yts-23. If there is no pitch difference, why would Yamaha make two different model numbers for their different markets?

Hope this isn't too off subject - but I know some of you play both instruments - and I've appreciated your expertise with the clarinet.

Thanks

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Re: saxophone and pitch

Author: BelgianClarinet
Date: 2005-10-11 16:06

No idea, but I cannot imagine why there would be a pitch difference for ALL instruments.

Otherwise all clarinets would be out of tune ;-)

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Re: saxophone and pitch

Author: archer1960
Date: 2005-10-11 16:09

BelgianClarinet wrote:

> No idea, but I cannot imagine why there would be a pitch
> difference for ALL instruments.
>
> Otherwise all clarinets would be out of tune ;-)

I imagine he's referring to the tuning note: A=442 in most of Europe, and A=440 in the USA.

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Re: saxophone and pitch

Author: Chris P
Date: 2005-10-11 16:21

They all have the same pitch.

The YTS-23 has different keywork to the YTS-275 (which was previously called YTS-25) - basically the YTS-23 is an earlier student model without a high F# - these have been discontinued in Europe for a long time now, but I think they're still built in America as the entry-level model, but there are people here in the UK that still play on the same 23 series that they've had for around twenty years, so they do last well.

The YTS-275 has a high F# key and all one colour (the keys and fittings are all lacquered rather than nickel plated), and generally much better keywork which uses similar key pieces as the YTS-475, 52, 62 and 82Z - so the feel is relatively similar across the range using this style keywork based on the early 62 series. I think this model (YTS-275) is more desireable than the YTS-23 as it has the high F# key.

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Re: saxophone and pitch

Author: rubricyte
Date: 2005-10-12 16:08

Thanks for the input Chris. I'm looking at a yts-25 and wanted to study up on the model a bit.

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