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 Re: Teacher moistens students reed
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2010-05-31 14:22

I have to admit that playing on someone else's set-up and instrument can re-evaluate your own playing and your approach to playing your own instrument when you go back to it.

Not clarinet but talking tenor sax here, I've never got on particularly well with tenor sax (as I'm not used to it and rarely ever play tenor) but have no problem with bari, soprano and alto as those are what I play most. One time at work a colleague brought in one of his Selmer SBAs for me to have a look at and suggested I try it out with his set-up (the mouthpiece was an altered Florida Link). I was reluctant to play it while he was there at first for fear of sounding like a something-or-other, but as soon as I played it, it made me completely rethink my approach to the instrument.

The sound I could make on this tenor with his set-up was a total surprise as it was the very tenor sax sound I had in mind and the tenor sax sound I aspire to which is the late Michael Brecker's sound. So after getting home I sored out some reeds which gave me as near to 'that' sound as I could get. Although still not 100% confident playing tenor and nervous about playing anything below E quietly (as I don't find it as easy as soprano, alto or bari for some reason - just the nature of the beast), I do know I can make the sound I want when I want to, so that's half the battle won for me there.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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