Introduction New member from the Netherlands, tenor and soprano sax

[Theotensop]

Hello,

Let me introduce myself, in short. I have been playing tenor sax for 30 years plus. I enjoy it a lot. Since 20 years I play in the Amsterdam street orchestra Toeters en Bellen. We play 'world music', anything from Balkan to African music. Most of our songs have been composed for our band. I like jazz, be-bop, hard bop etc.; some of my favorites are Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock. The list is much longer.

I play tenor on a Conn 10M, Conn Shooting star (outside), Eugen Schuster Majestic and FX Hüller World. The last two tenors are solid silver plate and nickel chrome saxes, which sound deep and strong.

Last December I started to play soprano, a Yanagisawa S800, from +/- 1989. An almost new soprano, which is great fun to play, since the technique is modern compared to my pre WW ll tenors. I should buy a Yani T880...
Mouthpieces I play: metal Phil Tone Tribute Ltd, old Otto Link Tone Edge hr and Jody Jazz HR* on tenor and a Selmer S80 D on soprano.

I try to play sax and spend not too much time on the web. Sometimes the forum answers my questions about all kinds of sax matters.
Now, let's play.
Kind regards,
Theo.
(Theotensop)

 

[Jeanette]

Welcome to the café, great to have you here 🙂

Jx

 

[mizmar]

Welcome

Toeters en Bellen

Your outfit?

View: https://youtu.be/ODXoVFXvDH8?feature=shared

Definitely the Dutch sense of colour coordination 😃

 

[Ghr9204]

Now, let's play.

Welcome to the Café, @Theotensop . Love your ending punchline.

 

[Theotensop]

Welcome


Your outfit?

View: https://youtu.be/ODXoVFXvDH8?feature=shared

Definitely the Dutch sense of colour coordination 😃

Yes, this is our colorful outfit. But you can see more orange because it was a gig on 'Kingsday'.🙂

 

[Ghr9204]

I watched the video posted by @mizmar , your band's alto sax player looks like he could be the brother of our Clovis Community Band's bass clarinet player!

 

[Theotensop]

Must be a coincidence 🙂

 

[mizmar]

Clovis Community Band

Blimey! Have they been together for 12,000 years?



(Sorry, off topic)

 

[Ghr9204]

Blimey! Have they been together for 12,000 years? (Sorry, off topic)

Reported! (Nah ....) There is the Black Water Draw Museum off the highway to Portales, where Eastern New Mexico University campus is, about 17 miles from where I live. The archaeological site is nearby the museum.

(Roughly 4 years ago, I took a semester saxophone jazz combo lab course for grade there, played 1st alto in their Spring jazz concert, fun stuff. "Aced" it of course.) 😀

From the 20 February 2020 ENMU Spring 2020 Jazz Concert Programme hand-out to the audience. It was an open to public concert announced in the local papers, various websites, radio and TV stations. The Programme states that I played tenor, but at the last minute had a problem requiring repair, played alto instead, which was still acceptable based on our combo instrumentation.

We have a mishmash of people here, including those of various European stock. I would not doubt it that we have those of Nederlander ancestry, too. 😉

 

[Pete Thomas]

Hello Theotensop and big welcome to our forum.

 

[Woodpad]

Welcome to this place. I saw that toeters en bellen goes to Drenthe for kingsday. Too foreigners it is a mythical area shrouded in mystery and witte wieven. It doesn't help that the word ninja sounds like it is derived from a local dialect. I play in Breda tommorow wearing a big blue hat with orange decorations. Lets make some noise.

 

[mizmar]

big blue hat with orange decorations

You probably know the joke often told amongst British businesses travellers?

A Businessman arrives home after a long day and a few in the pub on the way - to find a taxi outside and a message "Be at meeting 8am tomorrow, plane ticket with the taxi driver". "Better get a wiggle on" says the cabbie.
So chappie rushes upstairs, throws some clothes in a bag, jumps in the cab ... And it's all a bit of a blur through the airport, flight, taxi, hotel... And falls into bed.
Next day he wakes, showers, opens his bag to dress and finds: green trousers, a blue shirt, mustard coloured jacket, orange tie and candy striped sox. "Hell! I can wear this!" he thinks ... Then he notice the Hotel's name and sighs in relief knowing he'll fit right in....
.... "Hotel den Haag"

 

[Woodpad]

8% of the dutch male population is colorblind so we are able to combine all colors with orange without problems. Making jokes about such subjects is as rude as all other English dutch sayings.

 

[mizmar]

8% of the dutch male population is colorblind so we are able to combine all colors with orange without problems. Making jokes about such subjects is as rude as all other English dutch sayings.

1 in 12 of all men are color blind, globally.
Such jokes are made in the spirit of comradery. the Dutch certainly make brave choices in clothes colour combinations, like the Germans make brave choices in glasses frames. The British make brave choices in socks / sandle combination, the Americans make brave choices in short pants. Etc.

 

[Targa]

I was always late for school on 12th July because I couldn't get across the road until the Orange Lodge procession had passed.