Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-10-29 13:22
Careful now - I'm also a sax player and suffered with water blocking the crook key vent when out on marches (in JUNE!), but that was a Selmer alto I was using - I can't use my Yamaha (875EX) as it hasn't got a lyre attachment, just as well as I don't want this alto to come to any grief. My jacket buttons scratched up the lacquer on my Selmer alto, so for a festival I swapped saxes with one of the girls as she had plastic jacket buttons, so it was an old silver MkVI (belonging to the Royal Navy) that I scratched up instead!
But even some rehearsal halls are less than ideal - we used a school hall one weekend, but they only put the heating on just as we started the rehearsal, so the hall wasn't even warm by the time we'd finished. I was on clarinet for that, so I kept getting water gurgling in the speaker tube.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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