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
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 [...]
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One question a lot of people might have is why is a saxophone considered a woodwind instrument. It’s not made of wood so why would it be a woodwind? Isn’t the sax made of brass? Well, the reason behind the classification for the saxophone being a woodwind has less to do with what it is made [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 24, 2008
If you want to know what the most popular professional alto saxophone line is, then it’s the Yamaha YAS-82Z line of professional alto saxophones. These professional quality instruments are an absolute sight to behold. They are beautifully crafted and even more than that, they sound amazing. The YAS-82Z Professional Alto Saxophone features a 2-piece hydro-formed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Learning to play an instrument such as the saxophone takes a lot of time and energy. To become truly proficient at it, you can spend years learning to play. Of course, you don’t have to spend years and it doesn’t take a lot of money to learn to play the saxophone. There are some truly fantastic [...]
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 [...]
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