Daithi
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Greetings from the sunny Scottish Highlands
As I said on the Doorbell thread I am an old codger, long retired and recovering from a bit of a health scare at the turn of the year, with an interest in many types of music who has tried several times to get to grips with various instruments but have so far failed due largely to a lack of patience and manual dexterity.
This time I am determined to make some real progress and because I love the sounds it can make and the fact that is a single note instrument hope to make some progress on with the Saxophone - purely for my own pleasure.
I have tried a Jericho Tenor and at about the third blow managed to produce fairly easily a (to my ears) gorgeous tone which I absolutely love. The problem is that despite being 6'3" tall and big with it I find the tenor a tad heavy and difficult to manipulate (partly because my fat stomach gets in the way). So I thought I would give an alto a go and tried a gear4music alto in Nickel finish. Compared with the Jericho tenor I found it much more difficult to blow, much more difficult to get a consistent tone, and the tone was far inferior to the tone of the tenor. I replaced the mouthpiece on the alto with a Yamaha 4c and fitted a new ligature and Rico reed. That did improve the experience as it was somewhat easier to blow than the Jericho tenor but the results and tone quality are still far inferior.
My question is should I persevere with the Jericho tenor in an attempt to work around the physical difficulties OR would it be worth having a go with a Jericho alto.
all the best
Daithe
As I said on the Doorbell thread I am an old codger, long retired and recovering from a bit of a health scare at the turn of the year, with an interest in many types of music who has tried several times to get to grips with various instruments but have so far failed due largely to a lack of patience and manual dexterity.
This time I am determined to make some real progress and because I love the sounds it can make and the fact that is a single note instrument hope to make some progress on with the Saxophone - purely for my own pleasure.
I have tried a Jericho Tenor and at about the third blow managed to produce fairly easily a (to my ears) gorgeous tone which I absolutely love. The problem is that despite being 6'3" tall and big with it I find the tenor a tad heavy and difficult to manipulate (partly because my fat stomach gets in the way). So I thought I would give an alto a go and tried a gear4music alto in Nickel finish. Compared with the Jericho tenor I found it much more difficult to blow, much more difficult to get a consistent tone, and the tone was far inferior to the tone of the tenor. I replaced the mouthpiece on the alto with a Yamaha 4c and fitted a new ligature and Rico reed. That did improve the experience as it was somewhat easier to blow than the Jericho tenor but the results and tone quality are still far inferior.
My question is should I persevere with the Jericho tenor in an attempt to work around the physical difficulties OR would it be worth having a go with a Jericho alto.
all the best
Daithe