Tech/maintenance Key heights on saxophones.

[scotsman]

🙂🙂"Evening All" ( British Police joke)..OK.. Recently I have been repairing a broken palm key on my Kholert 57 tenor (silver solder) and when it was finished had a look at a pretty good video on setting key heights from Music Medic. Quite interesting don,t you think? BTW the Kholert is a pretty LOUD sax!! Regards

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gi3nd1bOe8

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[ghostler]

I restored a French 1952ish Beaugnier Vito Model 37 Low Bb baritone sax to playing order. It was a badly abused and many times repaired former high school instrument. It had good pads, but I could not make it play in tune. It played very badly out of tune.

I removed dents, straightened the crooked key racks, resoldered separated posts and lower bell pad guard anchors. Then set the pad heights. A good number were set way too high. After I did that, the horn now plays very well in tune. It is one of the easiest saxes to play in the altissimo register.

It has become my favourite bari to play. Here is a link to a summary of repairs with photos of my bari and of me playing it:

Saxophones - Another Beaugnier

Apologies for a lengthy absence from the Cafe, new home (with neighbours) and other commitments has restricted my playing/practising/generally making a noise somewhat. I have been happily playing on my Martin, again many thanks to @griff136 and my local tech. I have expressed my admiration of...

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[PigSquealer]

Would probably play better with all the pearls installed.

Do I need a tuner?

The pros and cons of electronic tuners

www.shwoodwind.co.uk

Repair Guides

www.musicmedic.com

 

[ghostler]

Would probably play better with all the pearls installed.

Back in 2010, when I got my Le Blanc Vito 7133T tenor (Jupiter JTS-689), it was missing the pearl for the left hand G key. I found a small but thick steel fender washer the same outer diameter and contact cemented it in. It got me by until I bought a universal artificial (plastic) left hand pearl set from Musical Wheel on E-Bay. About the only difference is that the synthetic pearl swirls in it are a touch different than the OEM, but not enough to make much of a difference.