A Few Thoughts…

Recently I have been wanting to play my sax more, and I haven’t gotten a chance to. I’ve been listening to a lot of music from sax ensembles, which has pushed me even more to want to perform. I seem to remember some saying about how you can take a performer away from a performance, but never take the performance out of a performer. It has been a long time since I’ve been on stage, in a group (or in the spotlight) making music, and I miss it. I would LOVE to get involved with a quartet and do regular gigs, but my time is already crunched pretty far, not to mention I have been away from the performance repertoire for a long time now (although, I think I could handle bari quite well since that’s what I’ve been playing the most of recently, alto is right-out until I can get my embouchure back).

If anyone knows of a quartet looking for a bari player who has studied mostly classical alto (though never at the collegiate or professional level), and been mostly playing bari recently, let me know! I think I might forgo cleaning today and go play for a while….

Here’s a few links about saxohones:

• The Saxophone family
  
• The Cologne Saxohone Quintet (translated)Â < - I want to get their CD, but it has to be imported!
• The Soprillo – the highest pitched saxophone in existence
• The Eb Tubax contrabass
• The Bb Tubax subcontrabass
• The Eb Contra-Bass Saxophone – the largest saxophone (and probably woodwind) made

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