Tech/maintenance I have no words...

[lydian]

I saw this when shopping for neck cork on Amazon. How does this even happen? Somebody had to go out of their way to do that.

 

[mizmar]

AI slop


Threatening!

 

[lydian]

But even with AI, wouldn't it draw from thousand of pictures of sax necks, none of which look like this. Bizarre

 

[Tuppertn]

What's really ridiculous is that no human ever sanity checked it before it got posted to Amazon.

 

[mizmar]

What's really ridiculous is that no human ever sanity checked it before it got posted to Amazon.

Well. I imagine
There's some minimum wage kid, probably has some English, sitting in a room full of example product boxes. Picks one up and it says "Saxophone neck Cork". He snaps the photo of the corks fanned out, uploads it, tells the computer "add a saxophone neck in the top right corner", takes the result and adds it to their Amazon page etc.
Next a box saying "bathroom tiles" and so on
Hour after day after week....

 

[ghostler]

I saw this when shopping for neck cork on Amazon. How does this even happen? Somebody had to go out of their way to do that.

Oh, it was probably done by a clarinet player to fool with the saxists. 😉

 

[Tuppertn]

Vendors post their own stuff to Amazon just like on eBay. Nobody looks at it. Almost every product on Amazon now is posted with AI pictures.

That product is sold by "Shining Fireflies". Sometimes Amazon is just a retail platform for other businesses.

 

[Pete Thomas]

What's really ridiculous is that no human ever sanity checked it before it got posted to Amazon.

Maybe they did and thought it looked good.

 

[Grumps]

I'm getting to work on mine right now... having it wrong all these years.

 

[ghostler]

That product is sold by "Shining Fireflies".

But wasn't the artwork was done by "Drab Botflies"?

I'm getting to work on mine right now... having it wrong all these years.

Perhaps a good solution to fitment of a narrow body neck to a wide body sax with hard to find original?

 

[Grumps]

Perhaps a good solution to fitment of a narrow body neck to a wide body sax with hard to find original?

Or a pad-shellacker's cure for a neck leak?

 

[Dr G]

Oh, it was probably done by a clarinet player to fool with the saxists. 😉

Are clarinet players really that simple?

 

[Pete Thomas]

Are clarinet players really that simple?

It was a joke.

 

[Woodpad]

Seems like a good method to connect a saxophone neck to a clarinet body.

 

[Tuppertn]

Seems like a good method to connect a saxophone neck to a clarinet body.

Nah. I just tried it. Still too big.

 

[ghostler]

Nah. I just tried it. Still too big.

You're supposed to blow from the other end of the saxophone. 😉

 

[LostCircuits]

You're supposed to blow from the other end of the saxophone. 😉

Thanks, I finally got it to work! Well, it was a double negative but now I understand why the mouthpiece is called a mouthpiece!

But it is counterintuitive, that "bell" is so much easier to blow into!

 

[ESJohn]

It reminds me of this post from DavidUK in 2022:

 

[atwl77]

It reminds me of this post from DavidUK in 2022:
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I might be able to play that

 

[PiccoloPirate]

Cut off a bit more, you're still flat. 🎶🏴‍☠️🎶