Buying your first tenor saxophone can be a very expensive proposition, in some ways it’s a lot like buying your first car. Once you buy that first one is a whole lot easier but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you can spend way too much for a piece of junk. If you [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 4, 2009
What is the definition of the standard saxophone? I’m not really sure myself. I guess a good definition would be a saxophone that covers all the basic needs of the average saxophone musician. A lot of saxophones would fit this description, so perhaps I should elaborate. A saxophone will also have to be quite [...]
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The Internet is a great place to buy a saxophone if you know what you’re looking for. However, a lot of people don’t seem to know what they’re looking for, and so they end up buying something that isn’t right for them. Before you ever start looking for a saxophone for sale, you really [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 3, 2009
Vintage saxophones can be fantastic instruments. A quality vintage saxophone can be worth its weight in gold. If you’re a saxophone enthusiast, you can understand why finding a great vintage saxophone can be so much fun. Personally, I’ve spent hours and hours on eBay, looking at vintage saxophones just because it can be a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 2, 2009
If you are a guitar player and you want to play a song, you just go to google and track down the TAB for the song and you can figure out how to play it. As a saxophone player, it’s not so simple to find alto sax sheet music. One fantastic resource I’ve found is Sheet [...]
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Yamaha is an extremely well known and well respected saxophone manufacturer. They make everything from extremely high quality beginner instruments all the way up to the incredibly high-end professional level saxophones. Yamaha is a very high quality brand, especially for alto saxophones. There are three main tiers of alto saxophones that Yamaha makes. They have [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
In my ever-continuing search of ebay for interesting saxophones, I came across an absolute classic. In fact, it might be the de-facto Jazz and R&B tenor saxophone. It is the King Super 20. This insturment comes from a long lineage of saxophone innovation from the H.W. White company dating back to their first “King” models [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 25, 2008
When many people start out learning to play an instrument for concert band, it is often an expensive proposition. Local music shops tend to charge quite a bit for a decent instrument, even as a a rental. However, if you are a saxophone player, it doesn’t have to be that way. The Etude EAS-100 is a [...]
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