Saxophone beginners Bending Notes

[Nick Wyver]

Thanks for that. I think this bit sums up what I experience:

We conclude that the vocal tract resonances have only modest effects on the sounding pitch over
much of the instrument’s range

 

[saxnik]

...skillful combination of this with fingering changes allows the clarinetist to produce a smooth glissando, like the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. By inference, given the similarity of the instruments, one would expect this to be possible on a sax as well

It is! (Apologies for being a smug so and so)

Nick