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Date Posted: 13:44:40 01/19/04 Mon
Author: Steve
Author Host/IP: csc0g02prb.net.cuhk.edu.hk / 137.189.4.4
Subject: Re: Yanagisawa saxophone
In reply to: waiwai 's message, "Yanagisawa saxophone" on 13:57:00 01/07/04 Wed

Hi Dickenson,

How do you think the sound of S992 - a typical classical-stream soprano sax? Personally I have prejudice against soprano saxophones - because sometimes they just sound like an oboe! Have you ever tried the silver models such as S9030/S9930 and do they sound like a trumpet?

Steve

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[> Re: Yanagisawa saxophone -- dickenson, 15:47:07 01/19/04 Mon [1] (awork145206.netvigator.com/219.76.145.206)

I meant "it helped me to improve 10-times faster in the past few years!"

Steve,

You are exactly right! S-992's high copper percentage gave it the sound exactly like an oboe - very sweet, soft and round. I have never tried S-993(?) or S9930 Solid Silver, because I have never had the chance, but I assume the solid silver would give much "ding" sound, ringing tones, and more projection & overtones, just like silver trumpets or my solid silver flutes.

Also, I heard that it was the reason why Yanagisawa used Brass Neck on Solid Silver to warm the tone a little, in order to reduce the "Ding" and "Ring".

Personally, I liked the round, sweet sound of an oboe, it touches my heart. I tried to play Oboe, but oboe's Hi-A and above gave me a lot of trouble on my upper lip - because my upper lip is weak. So I gave up oboe years ago.

I then moved on to Soprano to play oboe pieces and it really sounded like an Oboe. But some of my friends told recently that my tone is very sad (out of S-992). Maybe it was me.

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