Saxophones To buy a Tenor (or not)

[dooce]

I started on the tenor (well, flute actually but that's another very boring story) and none of the rest of the family has ever done it for me. Had 2 goes at alto and it just never grabbed me. The soprano though - yeh, get on with it fine, but I regard it as a bit of a toy compared to the the tenor. Bari is lovely but I couldn't deal with lugging a small wardrobe round with me on a permanent basis.

Maybe the sax that gets you into playing is the one that you take really seriously, and you just feel the need to explore the others because they are there?

I wonder if violin players feel the need to have a viola, cello and double bass as well because the instruments are all related? Or is this need to diversify just a sax thing 🙂

 

[davhudson]

It's a done deal. I have just got back to Milton Keynes from Portsmouth and all I am going to do now is sleep.

I'll do a report on the visit/sax later.

p.s.
If you are there Half Diminished you need to clear to PM space - I cannot send you any PM's because your space is all used up.

 

[Nick Cook]

Hi,


Then again, maybe I'm just jealous, because I think I have more chance at putting the moon on a stick than owning more than one instrument - how do you all do it?!

Just buy the new instrument without telling the other half. Accept and put up with the nagging for a while. Say you have to keep the old instrument because it's different!!

 

[half diminished]

It's a done deal. I have just got back to Milton Keynes from Portsmouth and all I am going to do now is sleep.

I'll do a report on the visit/sax later.

p.s.
If you are there Half Diminished you need to clear to PM space - I cannot send you any PM's because your space is all used up.

Sorry - done

Can't help being so popular 😀

 

[Taz]

I have been playing alto for just over a year now and am thinking of buying a tenor.

• The other side is saying - "You already have an alto - why do you need another one?".

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The not so sensible side says - Sonny Rawlins - what a sound - go deep!

So, what is the combined wisdom of the group?

[*]Get a Tenor as well the variety will help you become a better player.

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David Hudson
MKaDM

Your a sax player... of course you need a tenor... There you are, problem solved!

 

[Kumimajava]

from experience, it seems, for most of us when the ' tenor itch' grabs hold, you'll need to scratch it at one point or another.

so - go for it. I started out on alto too, then switched to tenor a few years later... then bought an alto back too.

just remember... one day you'll stumble upon those darned gerry mulligan records & we all know what happens next..

as to the BW tenor: i've played the alto & it's great value for money. would expect tenor to be the same.