Tech/maintenance The future of the saxophone!

[LostCircuits]

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[Pete Thomas]

Good Stuff.

The first bit made me chuckle when I thought about this:

Low Bb to B trill - Impossible? Not any more! - Taming The Saxophone

Yes you can! Try to trill from low Bb to B - impossible? Not any more with this handy Low Bb to B trill fingering guide. Amaze everybody!

tamingthesaxophone.com

But obviously it does a lot more. I am still waiting for an electronic mechanism on a real saxophone body that would make untold difficult fingerings much easier.

 

[Hipparion]

Made me think about the Model 100 of the ultimate computer keyboard... (whoops my geek showed... again)
After all there is no real reason to stick to something, if something better is available (then why don't we all have a Schmidt sax already ?) ;p

 

[Jimmymack]

I wonder if it comes in other colours. I hope it does open other possibilities other than trilling the B and D flats because it looks a bit of a faff to adapt to. Still it does look like it takes the sweat out of Bb.

 

[jbtsax]

That is really quite interesting. First we had "palm keys". Now we have "hand keys". The inventor has certainly developed the technique to use those keys to full advantage. It did however remind me of the added RH key system to early Buffet models allowing low Bb, B, and C# to be played with either hand thereby permitting trills that would otherwise be impossible.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Who plays down there? The worst sounding part of the saxophone imo.

 

[PigSquealer]

This is what happens when you have a year of lockdown and then a really hard snow😵

 

[jbtsax]

This is what happens when you have a year of lockdown and then a really hard snow😵

I suppose not everyone is creative and mechanical since the birthrate has gone up as well.

 

[LostCircuits]

I suppose not everyone is creative and mechanical since the birthrate has gone up as well.

That's only because of the power and internet outages 😎

 

[brianr]

This is 2 days too early !!!!!!

 

[h4yn0nnym0u5e]

I suppose not everyone is creative and mechanical since the birthrate has gone up as well.

Apparently... not: Baby bust: US birth rate falls during pandemic

 

[DaveT]

That sax sounded horrible. Not convinced by the hand keys either, I suppose you have to try it out to know if you would like it.
Meanwhile... the Schmidt sax looks like a nice bit of kit. I'm still a beginner so nothing much to unlearn!
A pity about the cost.

 

[Hipparion]

The cost is probably a big part of why not so many already have one. But I suspect it is not reason #1...

 

[jbtsax]

Apparently... not: Baby bust: US birth rate falls during pandemic

It seems my "joke" fell flat. Some predicted a baby "boom" due to people having to stay home, but the opposite seems to be the case---probably due to the economic insecurity the pandemic has created. In my home state of Utah a declining birth rate is probably a good thing helping education funding to catch up to the student population and reducing class sizes (unless the idiots in the legislature reduce taxes as they have a tendency to do).

 

[Jimmymack]

Here it is -

It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before

How a jazz musician created the Infinitone to challenge Western musical ideas.

expmag.com

 

[Colin the Bear]

It's hard to reproduce while six feet apart.

 

[GJ77]

Good Stuff.

The first bit made me chuckle when I thought about this:

Low Bb to B trill - Impossible? Not any more! - Taming The Saxophone

Yes you can! Try to trill from low Bb to B - impossible? Not any more with this handy Low Bb to B trill fingering guide. Amaze everybody!

tamingthesaxophone.com

But obviously it does a lot more. I am still waiting for an electronic mechanism on a real saxophone body that would make untold difficult fingerings much easier.

I did this on a session yesterday. I never imagined I’d actually use it.

 

[Targa]

It's hard to reproduce while six feet apart.

Not for a blue whale.