OK, for a start this is not directed specifically at anyone here- I love you all! But, I am totally tired of the Selmer SBA and 5 digit VI snobbery that I have seen and heard on the net and around town lately, more the latter than the former. This has been building up over the last few years. I have no problem with people wanting to play Selmers, but I have a problem with selmer players telling me that I won't sound good unless I play one of these hideously overpriced saxophones. Apparently, I discovered the other day, I will never sound like a 'true' jazz player on my martins and vintages Keilwerths. I bit my tongue at this because the person is a friend but, sorry, what a loud of @*&!! For a start, I don't consider myself solely a 'jazz' player, but in any case I love the sound of Martins, Conns, Buescher and old german horns and I personally find Selmers to feel and sound smal and unresonant in comparison. A colleage recently paid AUD$10k for a silverplate VI which I absolutely HATED! It was the driest, most unresonant, most un-singing saxophone I've ever played but he loves it because its a silverplate VI.......:!:
Who cares if your horn wasn't made at 9:24am on Sept 9th, 1958??? Who cares if your horn is a relacquer and has been buffed??? Does it REALLY MATTER AT ALL that Joe Lovano has a silver plate SBA and you don't????
IF ITS A SAXOPHONE THAT YOU LIKE, PLAY IT AND ENJOY. IF SOMEONE ELSE IS PLAYING A HORN THAT YOU DON'T LIKE- LEAVE THEM ALONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I will close by saying that I love reading what people here write because it is nice to interact with folks who are more open minded and less parochial.
thankyou for listening and I hope I didn't offend anyone- I just had to get that off my chest and being the awesome, openminded folk you are I thought this would be a good place to do it.
Who cares if your horn wasn't made at 9:24am on Sept 9th, 1958??? Who cares if your horn is a relacquer and has been buffed??? Does it REALLY MATTER AT ALL that Joe Lovano has a silver plate SBA and you don't????
IF ITS A SAXOPHONE THAT YOU LIKE, PLAY IT AND ENJOY. IF SOMEONE ELSE IS PLAYING A HORN THAT YOU DON'T LIKE- LEAVE THEM ALONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I will close by saying that I love reading what people here write because it is nice to interact with folks who are more open minded and less parochial.
thankyou for listening and I hope I didn't offend anyone- I just had to get that off my chest and being the awesome, openminded folk you are I thought this would be a good place to do it.