Author: mrn
Date: 2008-08-26 15:09
All this talk about sticky pads reminds me of a funny story. When I was in junior high school I played alto sax in our school jazz band. One day I had a terrible time with a sticky pad on my sax (sax pads stick the worst IMHO), so I tried using some Selmer "No Stick," which basically does the same thing as talcum powder (probably is talcum powder, for all I know), except the stuff comes in one of those little white containers like they sell valve oil in.
Well, I had some trouble getting the stuff out of the container, so I gave it a squeeze and wound up squeezing too much out. Now if this had been my clarinet, it would have simply fallen out the bottom--no big deal. But this was an alto sax, so all the excess collected at the bottom of the instrument, like the trap on a kitchen sink. In all my eighth-grade wisdom, though, I was not thinking about this.
So next thing you know, I'm standing up to play a solo. When the song's over, the director comes up to me with a smile on her face and tells me, "You were really smokin' on that solo---literally!" Sure enough, I had a plume of white No Stick "smoke" coming out of the bell of my sax!
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