True Confessions!

[saxophrenic]

:oops: Just did it again!
Anybody forget something in their sax bow and only find out about it quite some time later.
Was practicing today for about an hour and everything sounded okay, except the bell notes seemed sort of "stuffy" to me. Was turning over the bell to drain out the bell condensation at the end of my practice set and what do I see? :shock:
My Hodge silk swab all rolled up in the bow. :roll: :roll: I usually keep if rolled up in a tea towel in the bell when I store the sax. Took out the towel and forgot about the swab.
What gets me is - well - my attention to tonality must really suck or I would figure this out sooner, Huh.
CONFESS - anyone else do such a thing? :twisted:

[sax_appeal]

I don't know if this qualifies, but I rolled up some sheet music and put it in the bell of my bari and then spent an hour looking for it forgetting where it actually was.

[kcp]

When my bf goes-off on a gig, I'm the one who makes sure he's got everything; reed, mpc, strap.... and yes, even his saxophone :shock: (he's very forgetful) Anyhow, once I putted his neck-strap inside the bell of his sax. After he came back from the gig he told me that he had to improvise himself a neck-strap because he said, that I had forgotten to pack it in. I said "That's funny cause I'm pretty sure that I've putted it inside your sax bell" - Then my bf immediately went to check and found the strap where I said I put it. He said "Oh, so that's why I sounded funny tonight" :roll:

[Paul Coats]

I was in college, and suddenly began to have all sorts of low end problems. It was quite frustrating. Then as I was putting my horn int eh case, I heard something rattle. Turns out it was the mouthpiece cap and it was in past where it could be seen down the bell, sideways in the bore, caught in the Eb tone hole. So THAT is where that lost mouthpiece cap went!

[Mike W]

One of my graduate students bought a Conn alto at a garage sale for $25. They must have sold it cheap because it wouldn't play. I found a Brilhart ebolin mouthpiece stuck in the bore. Once removed and two small corks added, the horn played quite well.

[saxmasta89]

after my band director got to my turn to tune he told me to get whatever it was in my bell out...he must have heard an annoying vibrating in it!!...i looked in it and it turned out to be my mouthpiece cap...and i've also had experiences where i broke about 3 mouthpieces in a row..my mom and dad was about to make me play with a chipped one.

[Bbtenor4LIFE!]

Two years ago (6th grade, first playing), mynotes were coming out 2 or 3 notes flat. My band director told me to get whatever it was out of my bell...only there was nothing there. It turns out my cork grease was stuck in the neck of my poor little alto. It took a bit of prying to get it out, too!

[jr!]

I keep an old T-Shirt in the bell to absob the moisture.

Earlier this year I showed up at band practice, assembled my horn started blowing some warm up scales & noticed the low notes were stuffy.

Looked inside the horn to find the T-Shirt, all while having a conversation with my lead singer & guitar player.
They burst out laughing & I ended up being the butt of jokes for quite some time...

I get compared to the sax guy on the Muppet Show who gacks the last note & then looks inside his horn to see if there's anything there...

:D

[larry]

Got back to college from one summer break and was experiencing the same low end stuffiness described here; looked down the bell only to find a pair of nasty old grey argyle socks that my Dad thought I'd need to keep warm in Boston, but that I said I didn't want. So he stuffed them down my bell.

When I go home for Thanksgiving, I bring the stoopid socks back with me and leave them in his sock drawer, but he finds them and slips them back in my luggage. Fast forward to Christmas break. This time I leave them hanging from the weather vane over the garage. Spring break finds them rolled up inside another pair of socks in my luggage. This is war.

The years fly by - the socks have been to Austria and back, Florida and back, they get separated and reunite. Finally, I take the one sock I have and embed it in a poured lucite cube with a brass placque. Next year, I get the remaining one for a present, framed with a poem. Each of us now have one of these socks prominently displayed where we have to tell the story when people ask why. But the damned things won't end up in my horn again!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!

[sessionsax]

yep, done that.

[tubbycub]

Sometimes, I would find that my lower notes are hard to produce. But when I start to debate whether its a leak in my horn or lack of practice, I will usually notice that my Saxxy stand is still in the bell :roll: