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I've only ever played one tenor and I don't know what I'm missing in the big wide world. As a keen reader of all that is said about hardware in this forum I formed the opinion I need to escape the closet
Popped into sax.co this week and c/o of a very helpful Gallic sounding gent (Québécois would be my guess?) I had a go on Yamaha Custom Z, Yam 875 and a Yanagisawa T901, tenors all
I used my own mouthpieces
I was hoping for an epiphany either in sound or ergonomics
Nada
Not a sausage
All good instruments but I couldn't find much to distinguish them from each other and no feature preferable to my old horn
I return to my Selmer SA80II happy that it is an alright sax and I don't need to covet another, though I probably ought to be disappointed that I'm simply not expert enough to discern or produce significant differences on other good saxes
(I do however have a mild mouthpiece GAS affliction so the bank balance isn't entirely safe)
Popped into sax.co this week and c/o of a very helpful Gallic sounding gent (Québécois would be my guess?) I had a go on Yamaha Custom Z, Yam 875 and a Yanagisawa T901, tenors all
I used my own mouthpieces
I was hoping for an epiphany either in sound or ergonomics
Nada
Not a sausage
All good instruments but I couldn't find much to distinguish them from each other and no feature preferable to my old horn
I return to my Selmer SA80II happy that it is an alright sax and I don't need to covet another, though I probably ought to be disappointed that I'm simply not expert enough to discern or produce significant differences on other good saxes
(I do however have a mild mouthpiece GAS affliction so the bank balance isn't entirely safe)