Xalacai
Member
Hey guys,
Some infos about me as a player and my equipment ahead:
I‘ve been playing since Summer 23 and practice about 1h daily,
I have a teacher I visit weekly and play in an educational Jazz Ensemble consisting of said teacher‘s Students - we also meet weekly and play under the teacher’s supervision.
I play a Jupiter 700Q Tenor Sax with a D‘Addario Jazz Select 7 MP and Gonzalez Strength 3 Reeds. (also tried several Vandoren 2.5 and 3 Reeds, as well as Select Jazz 2H and 3S which ironically worked worst of all). I feel very happy with my sound overall and my teacher reinforces that sentiment quite frequently.
Low Bb to C# respond incredibly well and I can quite easily play them even in a soft staccato.
I know that the D often is a problematic note due to the positioning on the bow and I attributed my issues with it to that and the fact,
that I have not been playing for that long.
But by now I have acquired pretty decent control over my voicing and can comfortably do 1 octave on my MP without changing my jaw and lip position.
I can get the D in tune but it breaks off into the upper octave by force at +5 cents.
If I play it staccato it‘s at -35 cents.
With the same embouchure as low C it‘s at -25cents.
Things I did:
- I have raised the C key to it‘s maximum height but only pressing C# gets the low D in tune.
- raising B and Bb does not change anything unfortunately
- the middle D sounds quite dull unless I open my throat to it‘s limits or add the D palmkey (I worked on tonematching the middle D with and without the Palmkey for many hours and still do to compensate)
- I regularly practice chromatically down from middle C# with both octave keys open to improve low note control.
- a few months ago I brought it to a tech, who quickly looked it over with a leaklight and told me it was fine, he did not try it though and that was that.
- today I put a flashlight into the bell and looked for leaks: found some rims of light coming out of some keys but it‘s not much - but there is also a leak on the connection clamp between the bow and the body (however if I close all keys and put my ear to the neckcork and then snap any of the RH keys it resonates pretty well in there)
So I basically have no Idea what the problem is. Please help 🙁
Can the MP be the issue? I never tried another one and only have this one.
Some infos about me as a player and my equipment ahead:
I‘ve been playing since Summer 23 and practice about 1h daily,
I have a teacher I visit weekly and play in an educational Jazz Ensemble consisting of said teacher‘s Students - we also meet weekly and play under the teacher’s supervision.
I play a Jupiter 700Q Tenor Sax with a D‘Addario Jazz Select 7 MP and Gonzalez Strength 3 Reeds. (also tried several Vandoren 2.5 and 3 Reeds, as well as Select Jazz 2H and 3S which ironically worked worst of all). I feel very happy with my sound overall and my teacher reinforces that sentiment quite frequently.
Low Bb to C# respond incredibly well and I can quite easily play them even in a soft staccato.
I know that the D often is a problematic note due to the positioning on the bow and I attributed my issues with it to that and the fact,
that I have not been playing for that long.
But by now I have acquired pretty decent control over my voicing and can comfortably do 1 octave on my MP without changing my jaw and lip position.
I can get the D in tune but it breaks off into the upper octave by force at +5 cents.
If I play it staccato it‘s at -35 cents.
With the same embouchure as low C it‘s at -25cents.
Things I did:
- I have raised the C key to it‘s maximum height but only pressing C# gets the low D in tune.
- raising B and Bb does not change anything unfortunately
- the middle D sounds quite dull unless I open my throat to it‘s limits or add the D palmkey (I worked on tonematching the middle D with and without the Palmkey for many hours and still do to compensate)
- I regularly practice chromatically down from middle C# with both octave keys open to improve low note control.
- a few months ago I brought it to a tech, who quickly looked it over with a leaklight and told me it was fine, he did not try it though and that was that.
- today I put a flashlight into the bell and looked for leaks: found some rims of light coming out of some keys but it‘s not much - but there is also a leak on the connection clamp between the bow and the body (however if I close all keys and put my ear to the neckcork and then snap any of the RH keys it resonates pretty well in there)
So I basically have no Idea what the problem is. Please help 🙁
Can the MP be the issue? I never tried another one and only have this one.