jeremyjuicewah
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Hi All. Hope eveyone is well and getting all they want from this world.Taken a break from it (the world, I mean) but have been working away at that thing, the tenor, and am making really satisfying progress in improv. I have become aware of a problem though. I keep my old alto in the car for those odd 15 mins that every good salesman manages to make for a nap or in my case a few scales and arpeggios. I dont know what temp it gets to in the car but I dont have air con and the temp on the dash often reads 38, but I am not sure where it is measuring. In my music room this morning, at ten, it is 28 with the blinds down. I think it can get to the 30s later in the day, but this is the first time I have measured it cos last night I had thought. I have been enraged in the car and just about every night now by my reeds misbehaving, octave jumps, squeaks and horrible playing experiences. I occured to me that Sat morning, in the empty factory at work, airconditioned to 18 degrees, I had had a really really good session at full blast running all the right scales and passing notes together and producing a good, sweet sound. Its poss I imagined it as it wasnt recorded but I am paying close attention to what I play now and am pretty sure it was pretty good. (for me at least) Could the heat be making the horn and the reed go weird? I am not as in control of my breathing as I ought to be, it comes from trying to play quietly since we moved to this appartment, but even when I pay real attention to embouchure and breathing, I cant seem to control it. Plenty of guys play sax in summer here, but the heat seems to be the newish factor in my practice. What do you think? By the way I have been using Rico Orange for a few months, nice and cheap and seemingly reliable. It SEEMED to me that when I switched to plasticised last night it got a little better. Not that sure though.
Cheers
Mike
Going radge of Jalon.
Cheers
Mike
Going radge of Jalon.