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Saxophone Neck Stories

The first time I put my saxophone together I screwed up!

I remember renting a horn and signed up for summer school that taught how to play saxophone and the guy says “ok, put your sax together” so i took it out of the case and sure enough I put it together like this… I was putting the sax neck on the horn and I ended up like this and went to go play it and I went to grab it thinking, well the bell should be away from the body which it was and it was like this and that’s wrong.

You can’t blow like this. Yes, so mistakes are made, that’s obviously wrong. You put it in like this, it goes straight inline with your bell and if its really really tight to get in, you would want a repair man to loosen this top of your sax up a bit, and also if its really really loose he can loosen that, its an adjustable thing. You want it to fit fairly snug, but easy enough to put in and out and then just finish tightening it with that little screw there.

Ok next is the strap, i like these straps with a nice padding so when it fits on your neck and your sax is pulling it down it doesn’t hurt your neck. This string here I like because I could be wearing a suit or something and it doesn’t get in the way of the suit… after all, style is important.

The other thing is this mechanism here. if its cheap it will pull down little by little as you’re playing and you will keep having to pull it up and that’s a drag. This is a real cheap one, it gouges your neck and sometimes they have theses little metal tabs here holding on the string and it will gouge your neck here and that will hurt and that’s no good. Well that’s about it for now. See you soon.

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4 comments

  • Bebe Poldermans

    Hi Johnny,
    This has really helped me to get started, thank you very much.

    May 7, 2011
    • saxjohnny

      saxjohnny

      Glad to hear it Bebe, good luck with the lessons!
      Don’t forget after you register you can access the lessons on video.
      Johnny

      May 7, 2011

  • desch

    I love this website however I am trying to Play the videos but when I press them it takes me to registration .how do you do it?

    December 4, 2011

  • Lou Canning

     
     

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    Terry is in his element when he works with students. In the master trumpet class, he coaxes, cajoles and growls in an effort to share his gift with six classically trained trumpeters, trying to push them into new territory. "Take the vowels A, E, I, O, U," he instructs. "Now, think in terms of different levels, different highs, different lows."

    "Noo-dell soup doesn't taste like noodle soup," he quips, accenting the final syllable of the word. "Well, maybe with classical trumpet it does." Soon he's got the group dropping syllables and swinging. Then it's on to hum, buzz and flutter tonguing.

    "Dooba, dooba, dooba," Terry mumbles, with the mouthpiece of his shiny blue trumpet still at his lips. "Doodle, deedle, daddle." The language of jazz, interpreted by Clark Terry. ~

    Check out this video on YouTube: 29 minutes into the video Clark does is stuff that I would like explained if you want to fast forward to that point

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RucVU6F2l5I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
    Clark Terry – Student Performance and Master Class – ArtistshouseMusic Many thanks I hope all who watch this enjoy

    Sent from my iPad

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    February 22, 2012

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