MLoosemore
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Advice needed please from all the undoubted experts on the forum…
I am looking to transition from alto sax to tenor. At the moment I am playing a Schwartschild Alto which I bought intending to learn back in 1995. Unfortunately the Yorkshire Terrier we had at the time was a severe critic and so I decided to abandon my endeavours. Now he is no longer with us I only have my wife to annoy 🙂 .
I planned to learn on an alto because that was all I could afford at the time although my preference is definitely for the pitch and tone of the tenor sax.
I started self tuition at the end of last year as there are no sax teachers within a reasonable distance. I replaced the original mpc with a Selmer S80 C*, a Rovner Dark Ligature and Rico Royal 2's after only a few weeks and could immediately feel the improvement. Now that I have gained a reasonable knowledge of the 'basics' I have decided that before I take it any further I would switch to my preferred instrument.
I have been told by several people that a relatively inexpensive instrument may well last me for several years and as a 65 year old student this may well be right. In fact I may never need to replace it... This is partly why I am keen to get the best I can afford now with a view to it outliving me..
It is of course possible that the switch from alto to tenor may not work out and so a serious investment could be a bad decision. I am struggling at the moment with the option of choosing a Yamaha on hire for a few months with a significant final payment if things do work out, or going for the option of outright purchase of a cheaper instrument probably the Jericho J-6.
If I do go for the hire option it would be either a Yamaha ST-275 or ST-480. The latter being at the extreme end of my budget.
Either way I would plan to get a better mpc fairly quickly and have been advised that the Meyer 6 could be a good choice and compete favourably with the Selmer S80 on tenor. But that is more expensive option.
So bottom line…… Help….
I am looking to transition from alto sax to tenor. At the moment I am playing a Schwartschild Alto which I bought intending to learn back in 1995. Unfortunately the Yorkshire Terrier we had at the time was a severe critic and so I decided to abandon my endeavours. Now he is no longer with us I only have my wife to annoy 🙂 .
I planned to learn on an alto because that was all I could afford at the time although my preference is definitely for the pitch and tone of the tenor sax.
I started self tuition at the end of last year as there are no sax teachers within a reasonable distance. I replaced the original mpc with a Selmer S80 C*, a Rovner Dark Ligature and Rico Royal 2's after only a few weeks and could immediately feel the improvement. Now that I have gained a reasonable knowledge of the 'basics' I have decided that before I take it any further I would switch to my preferred instrument.
I have been told by several people that a relatively inexpensive instrument may well last me for several years and as a 65 year old student this may well be right. In fact I may never need to replace it... This is partly why I am keen to get the best I can afford now with a view to it outliving me..
It is of course possible that the switch from alto to tenor may not work out and so a serious investment could be a bad decision. I am struggling at the moment with the option of choosing a Yamaha on hire for a few months with a significant final payment if things do work out, or going for the option of outright purchase of a cheaper instrument probably the Jericho J-6.
If I do go for the hire option it would be either a Yamaha ST-275 or ST-480. The latter being at the extreme end of my budget.
Either way I would plan to get a better mpc fairly quickly and have been advised that the Meyer 6 could be a good choice and compete favourably with the Selmer S80 on tenor. But that is more expensive option.
So bottom line…… Help….