Tech/maintenance C# / Bb key linkage intermittent issue

[justsomedave]

I am a beginner. My son has a soprano sax from school, so just before Christmas I went into town and hired a Wiseman tenor to be able to learn alongside him.

I am having a minor problem where my Bb table key sometimes briefly blips the C# pad - it briefly opens before the rest of the Bb mechanism closes it again.

Sometimes it does it, and sometimes it doesn't. When it's doing it I don't know how to stop it, and when it isn't I don't know how to make it do it.

I've been looking it over and I noticed the rod from the C# key flexes outwards slightly instead of just rotating. There is a... bit shaped like a logo man hand that it sits in that it appears to be loose in.

Attached are images showing it at rest and with my thumb pushing it back into the holder properly.

Obviously I will take it in to the shop to ask but that might have to be next weekend, so thought I'd ask here.

Is that... looseness a problem? Can it be easily fixed? Might it be causing my C# blip?

Very new to all this so I hope I've explained adequately and appropriately.

 

[mizmar]

Welcome

Wiseman tenor

Are there any markings on the saxophone itself as to make and model?

My Tenor can do that - it's mostly a matter of hitting the right part of the table cleanly.
But, also, if you're really just starting - maybe it's a bit soon to be worrying about low Bb?

 

[justsomedave]

Wisemann DTS-350.

Admittedly I'm not using low Bb in anything I'm learning, but I do try to blow all the low notes to check that I can. While I wouldn't swear that the blip is the likely cause of me sometimes not being able to, if it's "wrong", then...

 

[mizmar]

Given it's rented, I'd think taking a screwdriver to it would be a bad idea!
Experiment with how the table works and if you can't figure it out, pop it back to the shop.. no rush, there are lots of other notes!

 

[Ghr9204]

just before Christmas I went into town and hired a Wiseman tenor to be able to learn alongside him. I am having a minor problem where my Bb table key sometimes briefly blips the C# pad - it briefly opens before the rest of the Bb mechanism closes it again. Sometimes it does it, and sometimes it doesn't. [...] Can it be easily fixed? Might it be causing my C# blip?

As you develop more experience, you will become more familiar on how your saxophone functions. Until that occurs and the fact it is rented, it is the store you rented from's responsibility in giving you a rental that is fully functional.

I would not proceed any further, taking it back to the shop you rented from. Let their tech fix it on the spot or exchange it with another that is fully functional.

Else, you could be liable for the cost of repair if your attempts further damaged it.