Just got a saxophone!!!!

[Emma]

After a 9 year hiatus I am picking up the alto sax and I'm gonna play some jazz, this will be part of my contribution to society. It could use a repadding and tuneup, any of y'all know of a really good repairman that won't charge 400 bucks to get it done?

I will post pictures later. Do we have any other musicians on the board? I would like to hear some of their work if they got links.

 

[Bricklayer]

Ugh...send me back to gradeschool where I chose sax in our mandatory music class. I was absolutely godawful, and looking back at it should have stuffed our teacher's pinhead as far up the horn as it would fit.

 

[Emma]

Ugh...send me back to gradeschool where I chose sax in our mandatory music class. I was absolutely godawful, and looking back at it should have stuffed our teacher's pinhead as far up the horn as it would fit.

Maybe you should have played some drums, at least it would have been therapeutic pretending the drum head was the teacher's!

 

[bdouble013]

After a 9 year hiatus I am picking up the alto sax and I'm gonna play some jazz, this will be part of my contribution to society. It could use a repadding and tuneup, any of y'all know of a really good repairman that won't charge 400 bucks to get it done?

I will post pictures later. Do we have any other musicians on the board? I would like to hear some of their work if they got links.

I take my trumpet to Tim's. No idea what they will charge, but they are good.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Brick, you live in New York and don't like Saxophones?

 

[GoGoGadget]

Despite Brick's attempts to Debbie Downer your thread, alto sax is a really fun instrument. I tend to have a short attention span when it comes to such things (as I invariably get to a point where I realize I don't want to become a professional _______ player and so move on to the next toy), but saxophone was the longest lasting and most fun instrument I've tried so far.

Speaking of instruments, I'm thinking of next trying either the banjo, guitar, cello, or marimba. Any thoughts?

 

[Kingzrool]

Speaking of instruments, I'm thinking of next trying either the banjo, guitar, cello, or marimba. Any thoughts?

Marimba, no question.

I play percussion. Congas, bongos or whatever I can get my hands on. I sat in with Zion Roots a bit back, they are a reggae band from Sac.

 

[NoBonus]

Speaking of instruments, I'm thinking of next trying either the banjo, guitar, cello, or marimba. Any thoughts?

Go guitar... great instrument for sharpening fundamentals, can be played with or without accompaniment, sounds pleasing, can be purcahsed relatively inexpensively, and can generate a wide range of sounds. Total no brainer IMO.

 

[Bricklayer]

Brick, you live in New York and don't like Saxophones?

Not sure what living in NY would have to do with it (is this the sax capitol?), but I have no problem with saxes...as long as someone else is playing them. I have little enough use for jazz, but it can be a soulful instrument, and I always liked the old attempts to fuse it into rock music by Springsteen, the Beaver Brown Band etc.. I didn't like PLAYING the instrument (well, attempting to play it) -- which was the initial topic of this thread.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Not sure what living in NY would have to do with it (is this the sax capitol?), but I have no problem with sax's...

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Your "ugh" lead me to believe you disliked the instrument as well your experience playing it. Bur really I just wanted to throw out a FEAR reference to my fellow kindred spirits.

 

[Kingzrool]

and I always liked the old attempts to fuse it into rock music by Springsteen

Clarence Clemens is the man! I have seen him play with several different acts (he used to sit in with the Grateful Dead a lot), only once with the E Street Band though.

 

[Emma]

Hey! doesn't Wayman Tisdale play the sax now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jRRkcRmWCk

Nope, I guess it's the guitar, but it is smooth jazz. He's actually really good.

And GGG, you should definitely get on a guitar. You seem like the type that just oozes the need for harmonic expression.

 

[sono]

Go guitar... great instrument for sharpening fundamentals, can be played with or without accompaniment, sounds pleasing, can be purcahsed relatively inexpensively, and can generate a wide range of sounds. Total no brainer IMO.

I couldn't agree more...

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[ForlornKing]

Start the cello!!!! I play the cello and love it. It's actually kinda easy. haha.


I also make beats.

here's my link.

www.myspace.com/resinate916

 

[kennadog]

Actually, I love the sound of a cello.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

G3 I think you should play the double bass.

Everybody plays the 6 string if you're gonna do guitar do something different. Pedal steel.