Members Jazz Ad Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Welcome to this new area, a forum dedicated to wind instruments.Sax, bass clarinet, kazoo, harmonica, french horn, didgeridoo, bassoon, everyone's welcome. sunburstbasser and I will be your mods for the time being. I'm mainly a half-decent bass player and singer but also the not-so-well-known worst tenor sax player in the World. Anyway, I love brass sections and wind instruments as a whole. I hope this area will become a warm and welcoming place to chat and share info about wind instruments.Feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself. I'm pretty sure HC forums are full of unrecognized wind musicians. Also, please pass the word to your fellow wind/brass musicians. They're not used to come to HC forums and may enjoy it. Regarding rules, no breeze, apply the general Terms of Use and everything shall be fine. Have fun and blow that horn ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aerys Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Back in the day I was never great though sight reading got the better of me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Piñata Tsunami Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Seriously??? So did I. Weird world. Played the sax for four years, haven't touched the instrument in 15 years now. Forgotten everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aerys Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 I never knew it to forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aerys Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 I still have it knocking about the place somewhere actually. I think my mother had aspirations to learn to play, never really caught on though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Piñata Tsunami Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Me too, I have a soprano saxophone lying around. Old, beat up thing. Perhaps I should try to relearn it; I wouldn't think the neighbours'd appreciate it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Trace-P38 Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Wow! Nice shiny new forum. Kinda breezy in here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hammergjh Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Me too. Still have my alto. It's 40 years old now. Not worth fixing. It might still honk a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 I played reeds for years, but have not picked one up in ages. But I AM itchin' to get a new sax at some point, and even have spouse approval, so I may be visiting and participating in here from time to time. Fair warning. Congrats on the new forum Jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted May 3, 2006 Author Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 I've never taken lessons or been good at sax but I toy with it.One day I may take the time to be a real player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aerys Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Just don't be one of those kids that plays that one line from Baker Street over and over, badly please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AntiStuff Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 Good to know this thing has an awesome mod. I've been wanting a woodwind forum on HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted May 3, 2006 Author Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 If nothing else, thanks for the props. Do you play any wind instrument ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AntiStuff Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 I play Alto, Tenor, and Bari saxes, although I only own an Alto.I also play Trimpet and Tuba, but not nearly as well as sax. I'm actually better at sax than bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whiskee Posted May 3, 2006 Members Share Posted May 3, 2006 I've never liked how sax's sound and stuff, so I won't stalk anyone in this forum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I played the tenor sax back in junior high/high school (circa 1985-1989). Marching band and Jazz band. After graduating I played a little alto my first year or so of college. years gone by... continued my singing and keyboard playing, and developed or improved my guitar and bass skills... ...in 1995 the sax player of my band let me play his tenor, and that was it for a long time... ...flash forward to 2005. Influenced by such things as friends playing tenor sax and watching streetcorner brass bands play in (pre Katrina) New Orleans, I got inspired and... ...In January 2006, after making a new year's resolution, I bought an alto sax. Played it, and after a few minutes, it was like picking up where I left off. Cool, huh? So if you wanna get back into the sax, by all means do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 Does this count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted May 4, 2006 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 You play clarinet synth ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 It's a yamaha WX5 wind midi controller I've got mated with a Yama VL70-m tone generator. The WX senses breath (the harder you blow, the louder the note), embouchure (you can effectively do small pitch bends by tightening/losening your lips) and it has a saxaphone note fingering pattern. I'm playing tonight, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarman Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I started playing alto sax in the 5th grade and I had a 14 block walk to school. It was pure torture carrying the sax all that way. In the 80's, I was a paratrooper in the Army and one day, I heard that the base band needed musicians so I went and auditioned just for yucks. I made the grade and for the next 3 years, I played tenor sax, guitar and sang in front of thousands of people including foriegn dignitaries, high ranking military and various politicians. It was great playing with such a talented group of people without all the typical baggage that musicians generally carry. My son started alto saxophone lessons last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I've got a pair of trumpets, an ancient Conn student model and a more recent Bach TR200. I've also been borrowing a school Yamaha and even a flugelhorn. I'm selling the Bach this summer and getting something decent. I'm leaning towards Kanstul right now, maybe Schilke. Its a good thing we got this forum. Now I don't have to register at another one:thu: I'll actually be switching from bass to trumpet as my major instrument next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AntiStuff Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 Originally posted by quilt_top I started playing alto sax in the 5th grade and I had a 14 block walk to school. It was pure torture carrying the sax all that way. I am totally with you on that one. Although it's not quite as bad as having to carry a sousaphone in the Cherry Blossom parade in DC though. And having an asshole band director who makes the band march the whole entire way back to the buses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarman Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 Originally posted by AntiStuff And having an asshole band director who makes the band march the whole entire way back to the buses. Talking about asshole dierctors, my 8th grade band director used to throw his baton at us kids who played the wrong notes or just sounded bad. He's lucky nobody got their eye taken out with his temper tantrums. If he did that now? And with my son???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xavios Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I would just like to say, moving the "this forum blows!" thread to OJ was a beautiful move! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted May 4, 2006 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I too thought it was a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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