Beginner Saxes Decision time - Any advice?

[Tenor Viol]

Great to see you got what you wanted! I love the Clarinet, and am on the look out for another 1! (proper wooden one this time)
Ive just bought a Keyboard "for my Daughter" and am picking up musically where i left off years ago!
Nearly took the plunge and bought a Violin the other day but when i picked it up, it didnt feel right!
The seller was surprised to see a heavily tattoo'd guy with a shaved head turn up and know what he was talking about haha.

You need a cello, much more comfortable to play... I have a spare one...

 

[Hammie 1982]

You need a cello, much more comfortable to play... I have a spare one...

Never tried one!!!! Might end up trying it at some stage too!

I love music and love to challenge myself to play more!!!!

 

[Tenor Viol]

Never tried one!!!! Might end up trying it at some stage too!

I love music and love to challenge myself to play more!!!!

Well, it's a decent Chinese instrument made by a single luthier - a Jay Haide based on the Montagnana model shape, so slightly wider in the lower bouts than a Stradivarius model. It's not going anywhere...

 

[Ivan]

I myself have a great collection of unplayable mouthpieces

Skills

 

[Greg Strange]

@Greg Strange It’s a Selmer clarinet I picked up for £10 at a boot sale about three years ago. The sop is definitely next on the hit list and I am keeping an eye out for a cheap flute too, but only cuz I’ve got a peg for one !

10 squid for a Henri Selmer (Paris)? Or a Selmer USA? Sounds like a bit of a bargain anyway...

Greg S.

 

[ellinas]

My advice is to buy a nice yts-23 .... I think it's an awesome modern horn. And quite cheap. Very very very balanced. And finally like a white canvas. Great if you re not into the vintage fatness sound.

I have great respect to a well adjusted 23 and the first gen 62. Phenomenal saxophones.

But I like the vintage vibe of some saxophones and ended with vintage ones 🙂. Still to date early 80s Yamahas are the perfect modern horn for me.

 

[NicholasCBV]

Henri Selmer (Paris)?

Alas Selmer USA, and plastic nonetheless, but at that price I couldn’t say no and I only use it for occasional bit of improv 😀