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Stolen Sax.co.uk break-in
im assuming others have seen this already:
Sax.co.uk
Sax.co.uk Sussex store was broken into. Lots of altos stolen or thrown on the floor.
Text from their Facebook page:
"An angle grinder has been taken to the side of our Sussex store and all of our professional level Altos have been stolen.
The thieves grabbed saxophones by the armful and threw them out of the hole onto the floor. There's no doubt the instruments stolen will be damaged.
Altogether 44 instruments were stolen, 11 were left lying in a heap on the ground.
Please can everyone at home in the UK and internationally keep an eye out for anything that looks suspicious, we are absolutely determined to make sure the people behind this get put behind bars for a long time.
A massive thank you to everyone for your continued support, we really appreciate it.
The serial numbers of all the saxophones are:
Yanagisawa
AWO1 - 359899
AWO10U - 354715
AWO10S - 358681
AWO2 - 356119
AWO20 - 360163
AWO20U - 360163
AWO30 - 352252
AWO32 - 352252
AWO10 - 358685
TWO2U - 00360420
Yamaha
YAS280 - M54414
YAS280S - M39167
YAS480 - M36318
YAS480S - M38990
YAS62 - E47553
YAS82Z - E36876
YAS82ZS - E42118
YAS82ZUL - E48399
YAS82ZB - E52498
YAS875EX - E45229
YTS62S Tenor - E41609
Conn Selmer
La Vie 250 Alto - 60316941
DAS180 - 60216813
DAS180S - 40413648
PAS380 - 51216480
PAS380V - 51216459
Liberty Alto - Silver Plate - 40213279
Selmer Paris
Seles Axos - 04623
SA80 AG - Silver Plate - Alto - 790628
SA80 NG - Black - Alto - 790356
SA80 GG - Gold - Alto - 790193
SA80 BGG - Matt - Alto - 790365
Series III - GG- Gold - Alto - 789811
Series III - NG - Black - Alto - 768729
Reference 54 Vintage Alto - 787258
Reference 54 Gold Alto - 789584
P.Mauriat
Greg Osby System 76 Alto - 078
Master 97 Alto - 125915
PMSA 86UL Alto - 1017814
PMXA 67RCL - 609015
PMXA67RXUL - 1216614
Signature Custom
Raw Alto - 8466
Raw Alto - 8476
Raw XS Alto - 8511 "
Sax.co.uk
Sax.co.uk Sussex store was broken into. Lots of altos stolen or thrown on the floor.
Text from their Facebook page:
"An angle grinder has been taken to the side of our Sussex store and all of our professional level Altos have been stolen.
The thieves grabbed saxophones by the armful and threw them out of the hole onto the floor. There's no doubt the instruments stolen will be damaged.
Altogether 44 instruments were stolen, 11 were left lying in a heap on the ground.
Please can everyone at home in the UK and internationally keep an eye out for anything that looks suspicious, we are absolutely determined to make sure the people behind this get put behind bars for a long time.
A massive thank you to everyone for your continued support, we really appreciate it.
The serial numbers of all the saxophones are:
Yanagisawa
AWO1 - 359899
AWO10U - 354715
AWO10S - 358681
AWO2 - 356119
AWO20 - 360163
AWO20U - 360163
AWO30 - 352252
AWO32 - 352252
AWO10 - 358685
TWO2U - 00360420
Yamaha
YAS280 - M54414
YAS280S - M39167
YAS480 - M36318
YAS480S - M38990
YAS62 - E47553
YAS82Z - E36876
YAS82ZS - E42118
YAS82ZUL - E48399
YAS82ZB - E52498
YAS875EX - E45229
YTS62S Tenor - E41609
Conn Selmer
La Vie 250 Alto - 60316941
DAS180 - 60216813
DAS180S - 40413648
PAS380 - 51216480
PAS380V - 51216459
Liberty Alto - Silver Plate - 40213279
Selmer Paris
Seles Axos - 04623
SA80 AG - Silver Plate - Alto - 790628
SA80 NG - Black - Alto - 790356
SA80 GG - Gold - Alto - 790193
SA80 BGG - Matt - Alto - 790365
Series III - GG- Gold - Alto - 789811
Series III - NG - Black - Alto - 768729
Reference 54 Vintage Alto - 787258
Reference 54 Gold Alto - 789584
P.Mauriat
Greg Osby System 76 Alto - 078
Master 97 Alto - 125915
PMSA 86UL Alto - 1017814
PMXA 67RCL - 609015
PMXA67RXUL - 1216614
Signature Custom
Raw Alto - 8466
Raw Alto - 8476
Raw XS Alto - 8511 "
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Tech/maintenance Super glued pads - a cry for help
Hello, folks. Many of you may know me from that other site.
A while back, I bought a nice, shiny purple logo Yts-32 from a guy in Japan. It arrived unplayable due to leaks. No prob, I think. I'll fix 'er right up. Wrong again.
The pads are glued in with ca glue. Lots of it, filling the cups. It is very hard and thick. I have scraped out a couple of pad cups. It was a long, tedious drudge. Acetone barely softens the surface.
Is there a better way?
A while back, I bought a nice, shiny purple logo Yts-32 from a guy in Japan. It arrived unplayable due to leaks. No prob, I think. I'll fix 'er right up. Wrong again.
The pads are glued in with ca glue. Lots of it, filling the cups. It is very hard and thick. I have scraped out a couple of pad cups. It was a long, tedious drudge. Acetone barely softens the surface.
Is there a better way?
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Saxophones Alto for warm tone
Me again!
I'm curious to know - what alto do you think produces the warmest, most mellow tone?
No particular reason for asking just pure curiosity........
I'm curious to know - what alto do you think produces the warmest, most mellow tone?
No particular reason for asking just pure curiosity........
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Saxophones Pork Tales: Saxophone Repair DIY Adventures.
Tales from a pig that likes to stick his nose into everything.
Paint that S. How difficult could it be ?
1) Search the net.
2) Find the color.
3) Order color.
4) Study task on University of YouTube, aka; For destruction by DYI presented by pro tech.
Do the cleaning & prep.
Paint and cleanup / detail the edges with hard cotton swabs. Sounds easy……
Yeah tha guy Matt makes it look easy.
Anyone remember your first experience cooking bacon crispy while still in the frying pan !
Paint that S. How difficult could it be ?
1) Search the net.
2) Find the color.
3) Order color.
4) Study task on University of YouTube, aka; For destruction by DYI presented by pro tech.
Do the cleaning & prep.
Paint and cleanup / detail the edges with hard cotton swabs. Sounds easy……
Yeah tha guy Matt makes it look easy.
Anyone remember your first experience cooking bacon crispy while still in the frying pan !
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Great Players Who sparked your love of Sax music
As an aside to Bobby's "first album' thread... I am curious to know which golden moment made you think "Now there's an instrument I fancy having a go at"
For me it was Tex Beneke. My parents used to play a lot of Glenn Miller when I was growing up. It was the only music I knew as a kid: big band stuff. Then I became a teenager and discovered Dick Parry's voice on Dark Side of the Moon, and thought "ok, this might be fun" After Dick it was Didier Malherbe from Gong and then my mate played me Charlie Parker and I was fully hooked!
For me it was Tex Beneke. My parents used to play a lot of Glenn Miller when I was growing up. It was the only music I knew as a kid: big band stuff. Then I became a teenager and discovered Dick Parry's voice on Dark Side of the Moon, and thought "ok, this might be fun" After Dick it was Didier Malherbe from Gong and then my mate played me Charlie Parker and I was fully hooked!
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I'm wondering if anyone's noticed a change in the consistency of Vandoren Java Red reeds recently? My last two boxes have been noticeably substandard, with the last box not having a single, decent reed in it. Resistance has increased noticeably and the sound is much less bright. I swapped in an old Red and it was great.
It feels like they've changed how they gauge the Reds, or changed the design slightly. Is it just me or has anyone had this recently?
It feels like they've changed how they gauge the Reds, or changed the design slightly. Is it just me or has anyone had this recently?
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Miscellaneous Photography - all aspects
Following various recent posts, I thought I would create a thread specifically for photography. Somewhere to talk about equipment, experiences, processing...
To start off, I was a Nikon user for over 40 years, but had to 'down size' as handling full-frame cameras and lenses was getting to be too much like hard work and giving me shoulder issues. My current digital camera is a mirrorless Fuji X-T5.
For film cameras, I have a Pentax MX, Mamiya RB67, and a Sinar F2.
To start off, I was a Nikon user for over 40 years, but had to 'down size' as handling full-frame cameras and lenses was getting to be too much like hard work and giving me shoulder issues. My current digital camera is a mirrorless Fuji X-T5.
For film cameras, I have a Pentax MX, Mamiya RB67, and a Sinar F2.
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Saxophones Galasso
Olá, meu nome é Rodrigo. Eu toco saxofone tenor. Tenho um saxofone tenor Galasso — é um modelo antigo, mas muito bom. Podemos conversar sobre o saxofone?
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Currently the access to Social Feed is a sub menu item of New (along with the various different New views). You can also switch back and forth between the SF view and trad view via a link at the top of each thread. Social Feeds shows the latest started or replied to threads showing the first post and latest two or three replies. The Load More Replies link opens up each thread to show all replies (but we may reduce that to 10 or so at a time)
If you reply to a post in SF format it will show as "nested" but when viewing the same post in traditional view it will have the post it is replying to as a quote. (or rather, it should do with any luck)
Please supply any comments in this thread, so not interrupt normal threads with comments about the Social Feeds system.
Again: this is totally optional and will not replace any current view so we won't be taking a poll on whether you like/want it or not.
What will be most useful is if those of you who are used to this kind of feed with social media can comment in this thread which may be sticky for a while
This is a different way of viewing recent posts, in a social media type view. This is never going to replace the existing traditional forum / subforum and new posts view, rather it's an alternative if you like that kind of view. So we don't need need an opinion on the feature itself. In fact I don't really like it myself. The reason is to make the forum more familiar and hopefully less perplexing for new users who may be used to this type of view but not the traditional forum format.
Currently the access to Social Feed is a sub menu item of New (along with the various different New views). You can also switch back and forth between the SF view and trad view via a link at the top of each thread. Social Feeds shows the latest started or replied to threads showing the first post and latest two or three replies. The Load More Replies link opens up each thread to show all replies (but we may reduce that to 10 or so at a time)
If you reply to a post in SF format it will show as "nested" but when viewing the same post in traditional view it will have the post it is replying to as a quote. (or rather, it should do with any luck)
Please supply any comments in this thread, so not interrupt normal threads with comments about the Social Feeds system.
Again: this is totally optional and will not replace any current view so we won't be taking a poll on whether you like/want it or not.
What will be most useful is if those of you who are used to this kind of feed with social media can comment in this thread which may be sticky for a while
Do you use the social feed?
9 votes total
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Miscellaneous Old Saxophone Advertisements or Case Emblems ?
Anyone have vintage catalogs, advertising or case emblem pictures / copies to share ?
Store emblems make for some fascinating historical research.
This sax below came from Smarts Music Shop. Could it be the one in display case ?
Store emblems make for some fascinating historical research.
This sax below came from Smarts Music Shop. Could it be the one in display case ?
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Miscellaneous Daily Check In
Good morning,
We thought it might be good to have a thread where you can just come and say hi, tell us what you are doing today, have a moan, share an idea that you wouldn't necessarily start a thread for ( we can always create a new thread from posts here if it became a substantial discussion).
It doesn't have to be sax related🙂
Basically an easy way to connect on a daily basis.
So to kick us off, I am writing this whilst prepping a casserole for the slo cooker as I am playing sax today with café sax and need a quick easy tea when I get home.
I am still suffering with a cough which will impact my playing today and I am worried as we are playing our first care home gig next Sunday!!
Have a lovely Sunday
Jx
We thought it might be good to have a thread where you can just come and say hi, tell us what you are doing today, have a moan, share an idea that you wouldn't necessarily start a thread for ( we can always create a new thread from posts here if it became a substantial discussion).
It doesn't have to be sax related🙂
Basically an easy way to connect on a daily basis.
So to kick us off, I am writing this whilst prepping a casserole for the slo cooker as I am playing sax today with café sax and need a quick easy tea when I get home.
I am still suffering with a cough which will impact my playing today and I am worried as we are playing our first care home gig next Sunday!!
Have a lovely Sunday
Jx
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I found this ancient Otto Langey Saxophone Fingering Chart, circa 1890, inside the case of a 1921 C Melody sax. The condition is poor, but it's still a cool find. I gather it's a fingering chart for those transitioning from the "older" 12-key saxophone to the "newer" 15-key layout. I don't see a date on this anywhere, so the 1890 guess came from the PC.
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The dates have been announced for the 2027 International Saxophone Symposium hosted by the Navy Band at George Mason University: January 8-9.
Plan your trip now if you're coming from afar.
Plan your trip now if you're coming from afar.
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Saxophones Low Bb vs low A baritones.
This came up in another thread. Obviously low A is better if you need or want to play the extra note, but is there something that makes one better or worse than the other in general?
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