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Hi, this week I made a video on an important topic: producing the overtone series on the low Bb. In the video I played the tenor sax, but of course you can produce the overtone series on the other saxophones as well. The overtones are really important to develop voicing techinque, that is...

Okay, I get the potential difficulty of slurring from octave key A down to a "correct-sounding" middle D (octave key, three left-hand keys and three right-hand keys down) if the player has a lazy left-hand G fingering, (L3). All this has to do with the transition from the neck-octave pip to the...

Hi, I'm a new member to this forum, but I've been reading a lot on it the past years, so not that new ;) Anyway, I have a few small problems with my Selmer SA80 alto. I've been playing on it for about 15 years and half a year ago I brought it to a technician to give it a checkup and a bath and...

Title says it all. I don't know why but my G (on top of staff) and sometimes my G#/Ab (still on top) always go to overtones when I'm switching from anything without using the octave key to it. I know it's not my embouchure because I've played on others and they're perfectly fine. This happening...

Perhaps I should ask this question on a forum for brass players, but as I know that are a lot of people here who know something about accoustics, I hope for some enlightment here. Now that the Dutch are in the final, I hear a lot of vuvuzela 'burps' in the streets of Amsterdam. I even bought...

someone else already started something about this but it received little attention. In my few years of experience I have noticed this problem. It seems to be a problem that is specific to tenors. Let me explain. So, I am in my upper octave and I am slurring from a C down to a G and once I put my...