Octave key - low cis articulation

[Collie]

Has anybody ever seen something like this? This seems to be the easy answer to so many stuffy mid-D :D

I forgot to mention, I found this on a very used (loved) Rev-D tenor (12xxx), looks like being factory installed...

[zacksofon]

Looks wierd!

BTW the german 'Cis' is C# (C sharp) in english. ;)

Greetz

zack

[jbtsax]

That is interesting. However to make the thumb octave lever (button in this case) push open the low C# at the same time it is overcoming the resistance of its own stiff spring would make it unreasonably difficult to push.

On those occasional sustained low D's it is a simple matter to add the venting of the low C# the regular way. When D is in a moving passage, the "stuffy" sound is not as noticeable.


John

[Collie]

John, you're right, for just a walkover, nobody would care for a stuffy "D".
But I can hear them...even if they stay for parts of seconds. They just turn me crazy :bom:

and I do apologise....I will never again characterize a c# or c sharp as "cis"
I knew it was wrong, but I just forgot the right words :D

But apart from being a bit hard to use (you get used to it, for shure!)
Do these mechanisms randomly appear on SML's or even different saxes?
Or was it just a feature added to one special RevD.
If this was the case...could everybody ask for a special like this, or did you have to have just a great reputation?
And this even leads to the question, who got that sax first :o

(not asking for serious...but who knows :D )