marc1024
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Hi,
I am Marc and I live in Belgium.
Some 10 years ago I stopped playing the saxophone due to a big
reorganisation at work that took a lot of energy to digest.
I went from a pure technical job (telecom lab work, testing out new equipment)
to a sales job (selling telephone exchanges to big companies, hospitals and Government)
Now the sax microbe bit me again and I decided to start playing again,
So I am out to do some saxophone shopping.
While googling around for sax things, I came across this place and it seemed
the ideal place to get some tips to get started again (nice & friendly people, not the
RTFM (read the f* manual) types as you see on some linux forums)
I used to play first the tenor sax in a concert band, and afterwards, when some
members quit the band, and we were nearly without any bass type of instruments
I got a chance to play the baritone sax.
I like the baritone sax a lot, so I decided to go for baritone again.
So any bari buying tips are very welcome.
Before I have been playing on a Yani and it was a nice instrument,
so I tend to go for a Yani again, a B901 or B991 (what is the difference between those actually ?)
unless you guys advise me otherwise.
I'll also seek some mpc advice, I used to play a Selmer SA80 E and found it a bit restrictive
to make big dynamic volume changes, I could very well play silently, but when high volumes
were needed I felt it was very difficult (probably me also).
Anyhow, in Belgium everyone seems to be fixed into the very closed/very hard reed system,
and theachers advice anyone to only use Selmer C*, stay away from anything else
and certainly don't play a more open mpc.
they already were not very amused to hear I did not play the C* mpc as I did on tenor
(C* with 4.5 vandoren classic reeds) but went to a Selmer E with Vandoren 3 reeds instead
This already gave me more flexibility in tone bending, but not the big volume changes,
I still had a problem with loud passages.
So in the forum, I'll be asking around what changes to expect when playing more open mpcs.
I would like a mpc that will give me a bit more punch than the more classic Selmer S80,
while still be able to play silently also.
The PPC mpcs seem to be a nice choice, so any reviews on how they behave on bari would be nice.
So after having spilled all my guts, I realise It would be better to pose all these questions in the
regular forum topics, but I am so eager to restart again that I could not help myself to already
put them here.
Once I am admitted as a forum member, I'll repost them in the proper forum topics.
and I'll keep you posted about my new sax adventures.
Best rgds,
Marc
I am Marc and I live in Belgium.
Some 10 years ago I stopped playing the saxophone due to a big
reorganisation at work that took a lot of energy to digest.
I went from a pure technical job (telecom lab work, testing out new equipment)
to a sales job (selling telephone exchanges to big companies, hospitals and Government)
Now the sax microbe bit me again and I decided to start playing again,
So I am out to do some saxophone shopping.
While googling around for sax things, I came across this place and it seemed
the ideal place to get some tips to get started again (nice & friendly people, not the
RTFM (read the f* manual) types as you see on some linux forums)
I used to play first the tenor sax in a concert band, and afterwards, when some
members quit the band, and we were nearly without any bass type of instruments
I got a chance to play the baritone sax.
I like the baritone sax a lot, so I decided to go for baritone again.
So any bari buying tips are very welcome.
Before I have been playing on a Yani and it was a nice instrument,
so I tend to go for a Yani again, a B901 or B991 (what is the difference between those actually ?)
unless you guys advise me otherwise.
I'll also seek some mpc advice, I used to play a Selmer SA80 E and found it a bit restrictive
to make big dynamic volume changes, I could very well play silently, but when high volumes
were needed I felt it was very difficult (probably me also).
Anyhow, in Belgium everyone seems to be fixed into the very closed/very hard reed system,
and theachers advice anyone to only use Selmer C*, stay away from anything else
and certainly don't play a more open mpc.
they already were not very amused to hear I did not play the C* mpc as I did on tenor
(C* with 4.5 vandoren classic reeds) but went to a Selmer E with Vandoren 3 reeds instead
This already gave me more flexibility in tone bending, but not the big volume changes,
I still had a problem with loud passages.
So in the forum, I'll be asking around what changes to expect when playing more open mpcs.
I would like a mpc that will give me a bit more punch than the more classic Selmer S80,
while still be able to play silently also.
The PPC mpcs seem to be a nice choice, so any reviews on how they behave on bari would be nice.
So after having spilled all my guts, I realise It would be better to pose all these questions in the
regular forum topics, but I am so eager to restart again that I could not help myself to already
put them here.
Once I am admitted as a forum member, I'll repost them in the proper forum topics.
and I'll keep you posted about my new sax adventures.
Best rgds,
Marc