Di in France
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Hi guys, I'd like some advice please.
I took my alto sax (Yani A8833) into a tech yesterday because I've been having a small problem with a (sometimes) stuffy top A after playing for a while.
He said it needed a small regulation (petit regler - I'm in France) and could I come back in an hour or so.
When I returned to pick it up he said that he'd done some adjustment, pointing to the lower register - and he'd also looked at the octave mechanism.He'd put on a new neck cork as it was old and a bit torn and worn at the edge.
I did blow it up and down, but there were another couple of customers there so I was a bit awkward when they were trying to have a conversation, so I didn't get to give it a proper check.
I played it today and despite the new cork, managed to get the mouthpiece into its normal position, but the octaves are not in tune. The middle C, C# and D are all out of tune on the octaves, ie keying the lower register and playing up the octave with the octave key to get middle C,C# and D.
Even with the mouthpiece pushed as far as it will go, I can't get it in tune to the tuner (it's flat) and there is still almost a semi-tone difference in the octave notes. Either the middle register is flat or the lower register is sharp. Am I making sense, hope so.
Would this have something to do with adjusting the height of the pads over the holes. Sorry, not very technical.
It was perfectly in tune before he worked on it, mouthpiece in a good position about half way up the cork.
I took my alto sax (Yani A8833) into a tech yesterday because I've been having a small problem with a (sometimes) stuffy top A after playing for a while.
He said it needed a small regulation (petit regler - I'm in France) and could I come back in an hour or so.
When I returned to pick it up he said that he'd done some adjustment, pointing to the lower register - and he'd also looked at the octave mechanism.He'd put on a new neck cork as it was old and a bit torn and worn at the edge.
I did blow it up and down, but there were another couple of customers there so I was a bit awkward when they were trying to have a conversation, so I didn't get to give it a proper check.
I played it today and despite the new cork, managed to get the mouthpiece into its normal position, but the octaves are not in tune. The middle C, C# and D are all out of tune on the octaves, ie keying the lower register and playing up the octave with the octave key to get middle C,C# and D.
Even with the mouthpiece pushed as far as it will go, I can't get it in tune to the tuner (it's flat) and there is still almost a semi-tone difference in the octave notes. Either the middle register is flat or the lower register is sharp. Am I making sense, hope so.
Would this have something to do with adjusting the height of the pads over the holes. Sorry, not very technical.
It was perfectly in tune before he worked on it, mouthpiece in a good position about half way up the cork.
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