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it all depends on the design of the ligature, some are designed like mine where you can have screws above the reed or on the opposite side, personal choice prevails.

The one in the photo graph above is only designed to have the screws above the reed, if you look closely, the ligature is bent slightly raised for the reed to slide under. in fact…[Read more]

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Leo the only other site i’ve tried is cafesax, but it’s just full of comedians, making comical remarks every time someone posts anything – more like a facebook site, so i don’t go on it. The down side it doesn’t provide backing tracks of any use to me and it’s more geared to classical music and sleepy jazz.

Well played! good clear tone.

i’ve got a long way to go, to be able to play the range of different songs you cover.
i’m barely starting out with easier tunes like Michelle. Just about playing it better in time with the beat.

works on my yamaha alto sax

to be honest, once you can play overtones, practically every fingering position found on the internet works, it’s just a case of finding the ones that you can smoothly move through a scale.

Similar to the last pdf, but i needed some extra checks, as some of my reeds play very clearly whether it is jazz sounding or classical sounding.
Some reeds have a more mellow or warm sound even if they sound extremely clear.

Reeds sound like when you turn the treble dial on a speaker, they can sound very sharp and clear on high notes or the complete opposite.
Similarly reeds can sound like when you turn the bass dial on a speaker, the low notes can be standing out more or less.

This also needs to match to the style of the backing track. Could have added another two…[Read more]

i found some reeds were not too consistent in their behaviour, ie when i played through all 12 major scales, some reeds started to get slightly worse, that’s why my pdf questions were narrowed down to identifying a reed that always behaved the same, if not’s behaving the same all the time in a test, then you can’t rely on it to behave the same all…[Read more]

Thanks Leo, after trying out different reeds, i was trying to narrow it down as to the noticeable differences between all the reeds, and a comment column thinking which type of song it was better suited to, if i needed a different strength, or if not to buy that type of reed again.

Also, i wanted a pdf to look back on later on, to remind me how…[Read more]

Well played and solid sound!

very true

i bought a new mouthpiece recently, as i don’t know what reed and reed strength works with it, i bought 14 different reeds of the strength i normally play on my other mouthpiece.

And i was staggered to hear the difference in all the reeds, some suited to jazz, some suited to classical, and some suited for different styles of tunes. Not…[Read more]