Saxxy
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Hey I'm a sax freshman, I'm self-taught (at least for the next while) and I got a major problem - I blow many notes correctly but an octave to low! My sax is an old Weltklang and has just been overhauled and in tip top shape. My setup(s) (I have a few stuff to choose from): Mouthpiece: Yamaha C4 and Rico Royal B5, Ligature: Rovner MKIII and some cheap metal one, Reeds: Rico Jazz Select 2H and Rico Plasticover 3 (might be a little hard for a beginner but at first I used softer ones, and couldn't get ANY higher notes with these). I use the classic teethon-top/lower-lip-curled-over-teeth embouchure, but this of course is still in it's development. When practicing long tones I use the iPhone tuner app "insTuner" and, yeah, this is showing me that I'm an octave too low. I know it's hard to help over the internet but maybe there's some typical beginner mistake that causes this problem or you might have some idea?!?