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Hi Pete,
I bought my first saxophone about 20 years ago in Italy, where I come from, I think it was a Grassi tenor, I swapped my Vespa for it! I had a few lessons mainly to get the sound out and never learned the theory, I guess being a teenager with a good ear I didn`t need to! I then got a new Selmer SAII alto (it cost the equivalent of 400 pounds new!!!)which I still own. Then came a second hand SAII tenor which I got for peanuts. In my teenage years I only played pop music with friends in garages. Then discovered jazz fusion and jazz music and really struggled playing along those records frustrated at how hard it was but never wanting to try to learn music properly (or even go back to pop in my friends` garages!). Then life commitments, marriage and kids relegated my remaining alto to the loft.
I have recently moved and I finally have the workshop I always wanted and a big music school just opposite my front door. With my now dusted Selmer and a few warped reeds I have all I need for my dream to finally come true: play the saxophone and maybe play it decently.
For now I am just going through your great site and forum which so far have been inspirational and once my workshop is ready to inhabit and I have found someone to give my Selmer a service (the first one in 20 years!!!) I hope I will have the courage to cross the road and sign up for some lessons.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Andrea
Kent
I bought my first saxophone about 20 years ago in Italy, where I come from, I think it was a Grassi tenor, I swapped my Vespa for it! I had a few lessons mainly to get the sound out and never learned the theory, I guess being a teenager with a good ear I didn`t need to! I then got a new Selmer SAII alto (it cost the equivalent of 400 pounds new!!!)which I still own. Then came a second hand SAII tenor which I got for peanuts. In my teenage years I only played pop music with friends in garages. Then discovered jazz fusion and jazz music and really struggled playing along those records frustrated at how hard it was but never wanting to try to learn music properly (or even go back to pop in my friends` garages!). Then life commitments, marriage and kids relegated my remaining alto to the loft.
I have recently moved and I finally have the workshop I always wanted and a big music school just opposite my front door. With my now dusted Selmer and a few warped reeds I have all I need for my dream to finally come true: play the saxophone and maybe play it decently.
For now I am just going through your great site and forum which so far have been inspirational and once my workshop is ready to inhabit and I have found someone to give my Selmer a service (the first one in 20 years!!!) I hope I will have the courage to cross the road and sign up for some lessons.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Andrea
Kent
