Cobard71
Senior Member
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- Ipswich, Suffolk
Hello,
Well introductions.. Hmm. Hello from Suffolk, I took up the saxophone (yts 62) last september after a 23 year gap in playing. Having played at school I then sold my two saxophones as my tutor at the time moved away and I hated his replacement, we just didn't gell. At the time I passed my driving test and wanted to purchase my first car so decided to sell up.
Then having hit the big 40 last year and couldn't afford a sports car or a leggy blonde and was having what my friends called a mid life crisis got back to the saxophone. I think it was something I needed to do and was one of the few regrets in my life that I did not continue, which was reinforced a few years back when a family friends brother was killed in an accident and he was an inspiration to me as use to play the sax (God bless you Ronnie) and use to encourage me in my playing.
So after a break I have now got a year under my belt, have struggled a bit lately with juggling home life and practice, but was encouraged by a sax player I heard at a bar in Greece whilst recently on holiday there. I have also found playing a saxophone compilation disk in my car when driving really helps pick me up when having sax trouble.
If there are any budding tenor saxophone players in Ipswich area I'd love to hear from you, maybe we can encourage each other then the tune just don't come outright and your fingers just don't do what your brain tells them to do!.
happy playing
Stephen
Well introductions.. Hmm. Hello from Suffolk, I took up the saxophone (yts 62) last september after a 23 year gap in playing. Having played at school I then sold my two saxophones as my tutor at the time moved away and I hated his replacement, we just didn't gell. At the time I passed my driving test and wanted to purchase my first car so decided to sell up.
Then having hit the big 40 last year and couldn't afford a sports car or a leggy blonde and was having what my friends called a mid life crisis got back to the saxophone. I think it was something I needed to do and was one of the few regrets in my life that I did not continue, which was reinforced a few years back when a family friends brother was killed in an accident and he was an inspiration to me as use to play the sax (God bless you Ronnie) and use to encourage me in my playing.
So after a break I have now got a year under my belt, have struggled a bit lately with juggling home life and practice, but was encouraged by a sax player I heard at a bar in Greece whilst recently on holiday there. I have also found playing a saxophone compilation disk in my car when driving really helps pick me up when having sax trouble.
If there are any budding tenor saxophone players in Ipswich area I'd love to hear from you, maybe we can encourage each other then the tune just don't come outright and your fingers just don't do what your brain tells them to do!.
happy playing
Stephen
