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Date Posted: 08:42:06 03/08/04 Mon
Author: david
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Subject: Re: Im an alto player
In reply to: Keough 's message, "Im an alto player" on 11:25:02 06/14/03 Sat

take the notes of the alto music and move them up to get the new notes for the saprano. D on alto = G on saprano

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[> Re: Im an alto player -- mark VI, 11:37:05 03/08/04 Mon [1] (NoHost/202.73.1.98)

I play alto and saprano saxes.

Here is my personal experience.

Alto is much easier on the breath, hands, arms, lips, teeth(upper) and jaw.

Saprano is a pain. May be it is the angle of muouth piece bite (it is like the clarinet; it is straight). If you hold it high like Kenny G your hands and arms get tire easily. If you let it down vertical your upper teeth get tire easily. I suspect that it would deform my upper teeth as the mouth piece is pryiny them open as I am biting on the mouth piece.

I spend so much effort/concentration/force in the control that I do not enjoy playing it. At least not as I do on the alto where I just balance the horn with the neck strap and thumbs. reral easy, and on the teeth too.

Intonation is difficult. Tone control is haphazard. Some one on this forum commented that the saprano tone is like that of an oboe. Other peolple on 8 note forum said that it is like the clarinet. I'll say that it is not like the sound of sax, Kenny G notwithstanding.

By the way, Kenny G also play tenor. The Bb Saprano register is a fourth higher than the Eb alto, not an octave.

Just my personal opinion.

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