YTS-61S tenor saxophone, beast turned beauty.

thesaxman71 · Apr 6, 2014

Following up another GAS purchase this time a rare Yamaha 61 tenor sax in silver plating.
Here is the audio clip to correspond with my other thread in saxophone and accesories section.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsR1aQtfd5o

Sue · Apr 6, 2014

I like it very much. Lush sound.

daveysaxboy · Apr 6, 2014

More core to my big ear holes dude. Sounds thicker for sure.

jazzdoh · Apr 6, 2014

Sounds great,as Davey says strong core and a nice fat sound to my ears.

thesaxman71 · Apr 6, 2014

I will have to do a 61 next to 62 cos yes this sounds thick but the 62 is thicker and bigger sounding in all departments, the 61 is brighter than the 62 tho. Both saxes i like a lot for different reasons.
I am actually going to use the 61 later today on a big band gig, i am wanting to try it in a gig situation before i can truely judge it but i am quietly confident it will be great.

Jeanette · Apr 6, 2014

Nice tone, you've done a great job on it 🙂

Be interesting to hear it side by side with a 62

Jx

Merryfisher · Apr 6, 2014

thesaxman71 said:
Following up another GAS purchase this time a rare Yamaha 61 tenor sax in silver plating.
Here is the audio clip to correspond with my other thread in saxophone and accesories section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsR1aQtfd5o

fabulous looking horn, and sounding epic. a keeper if ever there was!

thesaxman71 · Apr 7, 2014

The 61s just passed it's test on a gig today with flying colours, it blew a storm, and i really liked it, a great back up tenor for me and probably a keeper and easily more than good enough to be someones primary tenor as oppose to my back up so i still could be swayed to sell it as i am not emotionally attached like with my 62 and if that was the case i would be a gent and yard sale it here and donate.

Di in France · Apr 7, 2014

It's a beautiful sax Ian, wish I had the money to buy it from you! 😉

thesaxman71 · Apr 8, 2014

Di in France said:
It's a beautiful sax Ian, wish I had the money to buy it from you! 😉

Since fixing it up by the weekend after only a few days playing on it i think it is now playing even better than it was in this demo.
I might just keep on to it add it to my ever growing collection, GAS is good 😉

but you never know....

Jeanette · Apr 8, 2014

thesaxman71 said:
Since fixing it up by the weekend after only a few days playing on it i think it is now playing even better than it was in this demo.
I might just keep on to it add it to my ever growing collection, GAS is good 😉

but you never know....

Tease 😉