My high A sounds like trash. A mixture of spitty, airy, thin, and just dead. Please help! :line6:
My A with the octave key is just not working correctly. I've taken it to music service shop to be fixed, explicitly letting them know that I had a problem with my high A. They "fixed" it for $60 and I took it promptly back when I went home and checked and the note still didn't play correctly, but to no avail. I play a selmer AS500; it's what they handed my mom when she purchased her 8 year old daughter an alto even though all she wanted was a little flutist. All other notes on the sax sound fine. Including all the other notes requiring the octave key and the a below middle C. I've tired ignoring it, but the sound of it causes me to cringe and any song including that A is ruined. I've been playing for 12 years now and I promise I'm not hitting the wrong keys! :lol:
Quite frankly, I believe my older sister broke it somehow accidentally. She paid the $6o actually. I had been teaching her the alto for the talent portion of her Miss America pageant competitions. She's played the clarinet longer than I've played alto, and was using it for talent. But apparently the clarinet isn't as much of a wow factor as the alto as her barely passable alto skills give her more wins. (it's demeaning to her and myself but that's show business!) Long story short I think somewhere between performance and dress rehearsal and all the in and out she messed something up. Or perhaps it was another contestants act of sabotage! hah!
My A with the octave key is just not working correctly. I've taken it to music service shop to be fixed, explicitly letting them know that I had a problem with my high A. They "fixed" it for $60 and I took it promptly back when I went home and checked and the note still didn't play correctly, but to no avail. I play a selmer AS500; it's what they handed my mom when she purchased her 8 year old daughter an alto even though all she wanted was a little flutist. All other notes on the sax sound fine. Including all the other notes requiring the octave key and the a below middle C. I've tired ignoring it, but the sound of it causes me to cringe and any song including that A is ruined. I've been playing for 12 years now and I promise I'm not hitting the wrong keys! :lol:
Quite frankly, I believe my older sister broke it somehow accidentally. She paid the $6o actually. I had been teaching her the alto for the talent portion of her Miss America pageant competitions. She's played the clarinet longer than I've played alto, and was using it for talent. But apparently the clarinet isn't as much of a wow factor as the alto as her barely passable alto skills give her more wins. (it's demeaning to her and myself but that's show business!) Long story short I think somewhere between performance and dress rehearsal and all the in and out she messed something up. Or perhaps it was another contestants act of sabotage! hah!