Keith Taylor

Brother Cavefish,

Up until recently getting a great deal on a Link STM that plays great, I’d had my eye out for one of these (metal V16 medium chamber T7) at a good price too. The price on one with the Optimum Ligature is close to $400 here in the USA.

Well, I’m a memeber of a Sax Equipment Sales Group on Facebook and earlier today a guy…[Read more]

Thanks for the input, Johnny. I’d mentioned about trying a ligature designed to give a darker sound to try and mellow out the brighter nature of the Carbon Onyx reed on the Otto Link STM I recently picked up. I can play my normal Hemke reeds, a ZZ Jazz, and even tried an orange box Rico 2.5 on it today, and they all gave me the more mellow /…[Read more]

Thought I’d report back here after having received my medium Carbon Onyx reed from Johnny and playing it for a few days. I – REALLY- like it.

Oddly, it’s not nearly as stiff as I remember the medium hemp reed being before I sanded on it some. And Johnny says the medium Carbon Onyx plays about like a #3 Java to him, but to me, it’s not that…[Read more]

Thanks for the insight everybody! I should add that this whole setup thing has been an interesting journey so far. I say this because when I first bought my tenor, I was all about a brighter sound. Thus being why I bought a T75 Jumbo Java and liked the Java Greens and their buzz. It’s was kind of like a poor-mans Guardalla or Theo Wanne Shiva…[Read more]

…and please excuse the multiple spelling and type-o’s in that. I should have proofed it before I posted it, and now can’t figure out how to edit or delete it to repost.

You’re welcome y’all – and I’m glad you all dug his sound too. He was a totally new name to me when “I’ve Got A Right To Cry” played on Pandora. I looked him up and was surprised to read that he was the first person to record Night Train – which is a song I’ve known since I was in first or second grade (and have always liked) due to the movie Back…[Read more]

I’m commenting again to give credit where credit is due:

I sent an email to Walker and Williams – the company that makes the harness I had that broke while I was practicing – and told them exactly had happened. This morning I first woke up to a notification from Amazon that my money for it had been refunded, and then I saw this reply to my email…[Read more]

Thanks y’all!

I have no intetion of trying to buy a Purple Logo Yamaha right now , though. Because. Well, my local Sam Ash music had the used Cannonball Big Bell Global Series that was in good shape (that had belonged to one of their employee’s) for sale for $1800. I played it along with a brand new Yamaha Custom Z tenor, a new P Mauriat tenor -…[Read more]

Ok, so I ended up ordering the Jazz Lab Sax holder due to Peter recommending it here, and also a couple of other people in a saxophone Facebook group that I posted the same question in. It should be here on Wednesday, and hopefully, it will work well for me too.

As far as other solutions go for those with chronic back / neck pain goes. Even…[Read more]