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March 31, 2018 at 7:27 pm #69591
Hiya folks, well i guess most of you are aware of the Sax Partner, mutes sound by 75%. Got one second hand with the generic stand for $200- the other day. Have read your hands can get sweaty and the low notes can be garbled so ya gotta chuck a golf ball in the bell. Anyways, thought i’d post about it as i wasn’t aware of it’s existence until now, and, thought i’d share it just in case others didn’t know either. It’s a long way to the shop for a sausage roll and yonks to the bridge. Cheers!
March 31, 2018 at 8:59 pm #69593wow 400 bucks….sax muting seems to have come along way, don’t know how this one works but many years ago we’d stuff t-shirts or towels down the bell!
April 1, 2018 at 2:28 am #69596Anonymous
A sax coffin to deaden the sound? It may be more reasonable to buy a garden shed. It looks very restrictive to me. Try placing a large polystyrene ball in the bell with a strip of sellotape over the mouth to keep it from popping out.
April 1, 2018 at 8:45 am #69602Ya I used to stuff rags, towels etc in the bell when I was at a motel. Low notes were often muted. I saw those sax mutes in the music catalogues. Sort of pricy and like hauling a coffin around
April 1, 2018 at 8:48 am #69603Seems like the site is working re: comments appearing. Thanks Johnny for the fix.
April 1, 2018 at 3:59 pm #69609if i had to play a sax with this , i dont think i would
April 2, 2018 at 1:04 am #69624April 2, 2018 at 1:43 am #69625April 2, 2018 at 9:44 am #69653Looks crazy but this is a great option for those that absolutly can’t blow because of their situation.
April 10, 2018 at 9:00 am #69905Howz thangs Gents, just to say absolutely lovin’ my dear Sax Partner in my boring old life, it came with a stand so i can whack it in there and play so much longer now whilst i’m standing up without my back aching much at all as the necessary muscles are building i guess (no weight), and, secondly i oft sit down with it between my knees resting on the floor and jam away without the neighbours running for the hills or humiliating myself to much. Of late i can even get my squawking under control and incorporate it into my basic tunes. In fact if i drop my jaw down and push it out a tad and kinda vizulize blowing through my nose i get an overblow type effect and can hit a higher note every time now being way up from the normal ones that i can currently play and am learning. Jazzy baby!! Importantly, note, this is something i wouldn’t have learnt to do, that is if the sounds were not muffled in learning them so i could feel at liberty to experiment. I highly recommend this device as a blowing marvel and magnificent saxophonic flying machine. Comes with metronome too, line in and mike out. Marvytastic and, again, highly recommended. 🙂
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