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[Mike Potter]

Thanks Gary and Leo!! This was a fun tune, I’m still jamming around on it, I went out on the driveway the other day and played a few tunes for the neighbors using some backing tracks and this was the song they all liked the most. Harlem Nocturne is always my favorite but it probably scared the kids… ha ha!

Let, give it a go, I’m a bit out of tune above D3 but playing this song and working on How Sweet it Is has improved by altissimo range. Looking forward to hearing your version!

Oh and don’t be jealous, my other tenor is a Viking (made in Taiwan) I pretty much sound the same no matter what sax I’m playing, different mouthpieces do have an impact on how I sound, but overall not much. Bundy’s were used by a number of pros back in the day (Wayne Shorter for one, he played a Bundy Beuscher stencil on the early Miles Davis recordings he played on) new saxes are almost all good, I’m not familiar with etude but I’ve played on Jupiters, cannonballs, PM’s, Eastmans, Unisons and they all played nice. I’m fortunate that I was able to pick up a Mark VI at a great price otherwise and I have two grandkids who are playing sax in HS, I was hoping I could pass it on to one of them if they keep playing, a cool family heirloom. I still gig using my Viking, it’s a great playing horn once I had it set up and it looks pretty cool (it’s a brushed solid nickel silver body and bell with black nickel silver plated keys, black pearls). I had a Mark VI back in the 80’s in the same serial number range of my new one and I kicked myself every day for selling it, for me.. it wasn’t the sound but more the feel, I haven’t played a different model sax yet that feels the way they do when playing, hard to explain. Anyhow, I’m rambling. Like the old saying “it’s the player, not the horn”, it’s all good!

[Leo Salu]

Hello Mike, you are right about how different saxes feel, I have a previously owned Selma AS500 taiwan alto, that plays a lot smoother than my etude alto which i got
new, they both play ok but the Selma is my choice to play. My first sax back in 1954 was a Beuscher alto had it for ten years, and pawned it back in 64 been watching
ebay for a similar model and year might get it just for old time sake.

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