gladsaxisme
Try Hard Die Hard
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This reed thing keeps cropping up all the time and it's really no wonder,of all the variables that can cause a novice player problems the reed must be the most problematic in that a novice doesn't know he's trying to blow a duff reed,and probably won't be able to tell when he has a good one because everything else he's doing isn't so good anyway.
Lately I seem to have developed a squeak at the start of most of the notes I have been playing, and whilst using a reed that has been as I thought really quite useful I couldn't understand what was happening,had my embousure gone so far off that it was causing this and if so what had happened, I decided to try another reed so got one out of the box soaked and put it on the sax it immediately it was a much stiffer reed than the last and I thought that's not a bad thing the top of the range will be that much better and it will soon play in and soften up, but no it did soften up then the squeak was back.
So I thought better try another reed so out of the box give it a soak and on the sax we go.Well from the very first blow you know you have hit the jackpot it blows crisp and sharp with a magnificent tonal quality just begging to show you what it can do and all of a sudden you feel like a saxophone god Oh what is this reed called love.
The moral of this story is to all you novices out there you may not Be as bad as you think you are it could just be that you haven't found the reed that wants to play,good luck in your hunt for the elusive reed .....John
Lately I seem to have developed a squeak at the start of most of the notes I have been playing, and whilst using a reed that has been as I thought really quite useful I couldn't understand what was happening,had my embousure gone so far off that it was causing this and if so what had happened, I decided to try another reed so got one out of the box soaked and put it on the sax it immediately it was a much stiffer reed than the last and I thought that's not a bad thing the top of the range will be that much better and it will soon play in and soften up, but no it did soften up then the squeak was back.
So I thought better try another reed so out of the box give it a soak and on the sax we go.Well from the very first blow you know you have hit the jackpot it blows crisp and sharp with a magnificent tonal quality just begging to show you what it can do and all of a sudden you feel like a saxophone god Oh what is this reed called love.
The moral of this story is to all you novices out there you may not Be as bad as you think you are it could just be that you haven't found the reed that wants to play,good luck in your hunt for the elusive reed .....John