Thanks for advice the sax is not for me but for a beginner who I know, I still want to get a tenor saxophone just looking for the right one, I'm still looking for scale diagrams which start from the bottom note and go right up in to the altismo so that I can practise going up and down the sax any advice charlieI thought you wanted to go tenor!
Have you tried any of those ?
If you're on a tight budget, don't go blind. At least try them before you commit to anything. Do they feel right in your hands? Do they sound right?
It may be best to spend a bit more in a reliable horn, than take chances. I recently bought a horn that sounds good after tweaking it a bit, but doesn't have the screws that makes it easy to setup like Yamahas. So I ended up bending keys, gluing or sanding cork or worse... If you can't do that, it'll be a repairer and it may cost more.
Plenty of choices for altissimo here.I'm still looking for scale diagrams which start from the bottom note and go right up in to the altismo so that I can practise going up and down the sax
I'll ask the question which others have implied.....
how did you land on those two brands of sax ? Was it simply a matter of the two which are most readily available to you ?
(BTW the Blessing may well be a Taiwanese version of one, and although they get zero love (primarily because people pass judgment on 'em without ever having held one)...they can be respectable student horns).
Thank for the info I have heard the Taiwanese horns are quite good , I have seen horns for sale and these are the ones I have mentioned cheers Charlie SheffieldI'll ask the question which others have implied.....
how did you land on those two brands of sax ? Was it simply a matter of the two which are most readily available to you ?
(BTW the Blessing may well be a Taiwanese version of one, and although they get zero love (primarily because people pass judgment on 'em without ever having held one)...they can be respectable student horns).
Thanks for the advice charlieYou would probably be better going with a 'better' second hand sax than a really cheap unknown one. Although there can be good ones, it's hit and miss. The quality of the cheap ones means that they may not last very long and not economic to maintain.
OK, well that's not a bad initial compass to use. So those two horns were available locally, then.Thank for the info I have heard the Taiwanese horns are quite good , I have seen horns for sale and these are the ones I have mentioned cheers Charlie Sheffield
Yup - your typical default go-to Vito branded Yamaha 21. Can't go wrong with one...although do note that the seller states it will need servicing.What about this?