This is certainly back to basics. In reading this forum I have become educated about how delicate sax mechanisms are and the amount of work that goes into making them work properly.
The other night at rehearsal I picked up my tenor to clip it onto the strap and could feel all those pretty rods flex. My heart almost stopped! This can't be right but I see people carrying saxes this way all the time. Seems to me grabbing the bell might make more sense since it looks a lot more robust than the main body.
Anybody care to further my education on the proper way to pick up and carry a sax?
The other night at rehearsal I picked up my tenor to clip it onto the strap and could feel all those pretty rods flex. My heart almost stopped! This can't be right but I see people carrying saxes this way all the time. Seems to me grabbing the bell might make more sense since it looks a lot more robust than the main body.
Anybody care to further my education on the proper way to pick up and carry a sax?
