Introduction Hello from me

[DrJane]

hello🙂
My intro;-
I started on clarinet and added alto in the 80’s - borrowing a Buescher low tone alto from school so I could play in local youth jazz orchestra (DYJO).
My dad bought me an alto - a Yani 800 - in 1986 when I had to hand in the Buescher.
She still looks beautiful and plays beautifully
I just play for myself these days but am enjoying watching my daughter learning to play alto.
She started on an Alphasax and has just gone full-size.
She will inherit my Yani but currently has a Buescher to use at school.( insurance wouldn’t cover a Yani going to school and neither would my nerves)
I have joined the forum to seek wise counsel about instruments - she wants to take up soprano at some point

 

[Jeanette]

Great to have you here. 🙂

Jx

 

[Donal]

Hi DrJane, nice to meet you. I’m a tenor player who ‘messed’ with soprano about 4 years ago. Started with a very cheap horn - to take on the plane to Australia - and really struggled with it. I just didn’t like playing it. ‘Bout 6 months ago I got the chance to play in a band I really like - they needed a soprano player. Of course I said yes and then panicked! I bought a student model Conn Selmer and I’ve loved playing it ever since. It’s light, the key actions responsive and intonation is good. At our last concert the musical director even said how good the sopranos sounded - there are 3 of us - a compliment that was unprecedented. The moral of the story - I‘d buy the best soprano you can afford for your daughter. I use an Otto link mouthpiece now but started with a Yamaha 4 (which was good) and a Selmer S80 which was better and I still use occasionally.