Leo Salu

Hello Bob, that was great, good to see you back! we missed you and your cool videos. Leo S.

James i buy just about everything to do with a saxophone on line, including all my saxophones but with people like you supplying great info on a wealth of maters it is not like i am buying blindly. Your little music store sounds like a great place to hang out.

Excellent info when i started buying fiberreeds i could only find four to choose from, think i will get one of those carbon fiberreeds. and maybe a g=sax model they both sound interesting .

Hello James, when i started playing again i had no idea what reeds would work for me so tried a bunch, i was burning threw a bunch of reeds they just did not hold up well, then noted Johnny (our Mentor) was using the fiberreed exclusively so i bought one of each type they had (pricey) and landed on the hemp medium love it, will stick with it,…[Read more]

Thanks Wayne, think you will like the fiberreed, i found the hemp was best for me.

Thanks james, appreciate the support. I use a fiberreed reed hemp on my alto,(selmer as200) seems to play pretty well try one.

From Johnny’s collection song played in the key of D
Setup
Yamaha YTS 62
Otto link MP #5
Fiberreed Hemp medium

James love all these details, can’t find this kind of information about reeds anywhere, very impressive work thanks LS

Try a fiberreed works great right out of the box I have one of each type in medium strength, my favorite is the hemp. And they last a long long time, Check Johnny’s review of the fiberreed you will never go back to wood. BTW i have a few new boxes of Vandoren’s, have never opened them and probably never will.

Hello SP, wow that drummer Chris Bates is great, had me tapping along with his cover, God love the drummer, what would music be without them, tried it once and failed, much too tiring.

Thanks SP I was trying to sound a bit like Johnny’s cover, could have done a little better on some of the growls playing is always a work in progress. I listen to his
playing all the time, here is his version.

SP I also have a couple of other lists of his songs so yes i can resort the titles whenever a new song comes along and i do add the new ones to the other spread sheet so i can use the title as a link. I just passed the 170 song mark with johnny songs definitely need a spread sheet to keep track of all those songs Its a great…[Read more]

SP I occasionally refer to the yts62 as “Baby” the rest just by the company name and yes we do have names for our two cars! As for the collection when i move on to the other world, my wife will donate all the saxes to our local high school band. So a young musician will have access to a sax.

SP The tenors are a Yamaha yts 62, Yamaha yts 23, Selmer bundy 2, and a Etude, the altos are a Selmer AS 200 and a Etude, soprano no name, the c melody is a Conn.
the collection was basically created thru the years as i saw the need for a better sax and hated to get rid of the old originals. LS

Howdy SP, that was quite the listing, bravo on all that work, I have a similar listing that you might like to try, I set up a excel spread sheet named “Johnny’s songs”, then i go to the alfa listing that Johnny has on his site, i simply copy the first set “A’s” and downsize the site and open the spread sheet and drop the copied section on to…[Read more]

SP would agree with you on personalized instruction if that is available, in my area there is not even a music store never mind a sax teacher, so the internet has filled in that need nicely, Johnny is very helpful, many times i would ask him a question by email and he always offered great advice, latest was the MP i was using he suggested i use…[Read more]

Dr Walley is quite the comedian always fun to watch.