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RE: Tenor Sax

Author: William
Date: 2001-10-30 03:29

A good friend of mine once described the air stream needed to produce low saxophone notes as "blowing warm air" at a window. I tend to use a, more or less, double lip kind of embouchure down around low C, B and Bb. You need to loosen your embouchure but still maintain support for the reed and use ultra-steady air--but gentle. It's a "balancing act" at best--and, a good responsive reed helps. It is just as important to search and work reeds for sax as it is for clarinet. My experiance is, however, that good reeds last much longer on sax than on clarinet. Hope this helps a bit--Good Sax'n!!!!!!!

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