Andrew T
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I live in India and am coming back to the UK for a week in a fortnight. Me and my son both play a Hanson SA5, with the supplied BG mouthpiece. We have no experience of any other mouthpiece. My son is to do his Grade 5 alto sax exam in October. Whilst back in the UK I'm going to buy a Walstein soprano and tenor sax to take back with me to India for us to play. I've noticed that sax.co.uk have got great offers on Yani mpcs. See:
http://saxophones.co.uk/acatalog/Yanagisawa_Mouthpieces_at_HALF_PRICE_.html
Here are my questions:
1) Is it worth taking the Walstein saxes I buy to sax.co.uk to try these mpcs at half price. I could also try others at the same time.
2) I have no idea what it means by lays. What will this mean to our playing?
3) Are these lays the right one for us? It seems there is an ebonite 8 and a metal 5 for the soprano, an ebonite 7 & 8 for the alto, and an ebonite 8 and metal 9 for the tenor.
4) The alto will have to be bought 'blind' as I can't bring the alto sax back from India to test.
5) Lastly, has anyone any experience of claiming VAT back as you leave the country on goods bought? Apparently you get a customs form from the shop which customs at heathrow stamp, which you then return to the shop and they give the VAT back. Is this easy? Where do you take it at Heathrow?
Any advice, greafully received.
Thanks
http://saxophones.co.uk/acatalog/Yanagisawa_Mouthpieces_at_HALF_PRICE_.html
Here are my questions:
1) Is it worth taking the Walstein saxes I buy to sax.co.uk to try these mpcs at half price. I could also try others at the same time.
2) I have no idea what it means by lays. What will this mean to our playing?
3) Are these lays the right one for us? It seems there is an ebonite 8 and a metal 5 for the soprano, an ebonite 7 & 8 for the alto, and an ebonite 8 and metal 9 for the tenor.
4) The alto will have to be bought 'blind' as I can't bring the alto sax back from India to test.
5) Lastly, has anyone any experience of claiming VAT back as you leave the country on goods bought? Apparently you get a customs form from the shop which customs at heathrow stamp, which you then return to the shop and they give the VAT back. Is this easy? Where do you take it at Heathrow?
Any advice, greafully received.
Thanks
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