[Jazz Is All]

I know many people have multiple saxes but there are always a couple that they truely love and will never part with. They are in essence part of your family with whom you have shared wonderful times. And of course you would never willingly be seperated from them.

The three saxes in the photo are mine and I definitely think of them as my Saxophone Family. They spend their down time on their stands side by side and look great together. There's Daddy Martin and Mommy Truedy and baby Connie. I posed them here relaxing on the bed together because I practice there and so that is where they often like to take a nap together after a day of playing. Standing on a stand all night is tiring for them sometimes.

How about you? Do you have photos of your saxophone family together that you can share with us? If you love them you must be proud of them, so show them off, okay?

 

[liggy]

My main setups for gigs. SA80III tenor and YAS 62ES.
Both silver plated and replaceable if worse comes to worst

They have served me well for decades.

This pub had so many drunks that I set up on an out of the way table to avoid potential disaster.

 

[Jazz Is All]

My main setups for gigs. SA80III tenor and YAS 62ES.
Both silver plated and replaceable if wore comes to worse.

They have served me well for decades.

This pub had so many drunks that I set up on an out of the way table to avoid potential disaster.

Man, you're either brave or too trusting. I never took a stand to bars because all someone has to do is bump the table and it will fall right off the stand and hit the table and then the floor. I always laid my horn down on top of the piano if I could or at least on a table, either out of the way or right where I was sitting. If I couldn't do either I kept it in the case. I wouldn't trust those people as far as I could throw them because at every bar the stage was right where the path to the cans passed and that meant a steady stream of drunks needing to drain their tanks and pushing past. That spells trouble. I never let it get out of my sight either because there is always one of those "ohhh I love the saxophone. You were so good. Can I hold it?"types who comes by and if they see it unattended they could try holding it. I don't trust anyone. When they came up with that line I was always tempted to say: Of course you can hold my horn honey, but my sax, no way! What are you doing later on?

 

[Kenneth]

I'll play!

Here's my main family, although there're other cousins and such.

Daddy 10M (329XXX), Mummy Transitional (257XXX), Baby Pan-American 46M (P19XXX).

Keep safe, all,
Kenneth

 

[liggy]

My main setups for gigs. SA80III tenor and YAS 62ES.
Both silver plated and replaceable if wore comes to worse.

They have served me well for decades.

This pub had so many drunks that I set up on an out of the way table to avoid potential disaster.

Man, you're either brave or too trusting. I never took a stand to bars because all someone has to do is bump the table and it will fall right off the stand and hit the table and then the floor. I always laid my horn down on top of the piano if I could or at least on a table, either out of the way or right where I was sitting. If I couldn't do either I kept it in the case. I wouldn't trust those people as far as I could throw them because at every bar the stage was right where the path to the cans passed and that meant a steady stream of drunks needing to drain their tanks and pushing past. That spells trouble. I never let it get out of my sight either because there is always one of those "ohhh I love the saxophone. You were so good. Can I hold it?"types who comes by and if they see it unattended they could try holding it. I don't trust anyone. When they came up with that line I was always tempted to say: Of course you can hold my horn honey, but my sax, no way! What are you doing later on?

Lol.., I ran a pretty good tab that night myself. Didn't get any offers for caressing my instrument but that crowd was pretty rough looking. Fun but no thanks. ?

That table was about 30 feet from the stage but in a different level separated by stairs do the seriously wasted didn't find their way there. ?

 

[Reet McVouty]

YTS-875EX - Tenor
Gemeinhardt 3SHB - Flute
Cannonball Hot Spur - Alto
YSS-82ZR - Soprano

Alto with Brilhart MP.

 

[Frank D]

Here are my four brothers:

 

[megwenda]

Here are my four brothers:
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My trusty watchman, if any burglers come, he will blow his 'horn'

The other sax's are too new to be considered family, although the dolnet series 2 is fast becoming a good friend

 

[raindog]

Amati sop which I've had for 10+ years, and still can't play properly - probably 80% me and 20% the sax. Lack of practice and discipline, really. Still, my first axe and very important emotionally. Sometimes a nice sound comes out of it too. I will never part with it. Rocking a Yamaha 6C

Ida Maria Grassi tenor, a love affair of 3+ years and counting. It's been such a nice relationship it would be very hard or impossible to let it go even if I get something "fancier" some day. But really, I feel like I could play this thing forever, if something's holding me back it definitely isn't this axe. Rolling with a Ponzol

Jupiter low A bari, a new member both in the family (about a month) and by vintage, shiny and all, but seems to be fitting in nicely so far. Needs some tech love, and a lot of practice, but it's been a lot of fun already. I think I could be best at home with a bari, once I get everything sorted gearwise and technique-wise. At the moment I sound pretty bad with it. I think this is likely to get replaced with something less shiny and more expensive in the future, perhaps of american vintage, but you never know! Rocking a Ponzol like Ida Maria above

All like to hang out on stands ready to play, and sure they are nicer to look at that way too. For longer no-play periods the necks and MPC's go off for ventilation, but they don't often see a case.

 

[Jazz Is All]

Amati sop which I've had for 10+ years, and still can't play properly - probably 80% me and 20% the sax. Lack of practice and discipline, really. Still, my first axe and very important emotionally. Sometimes a nice sound comes out of it too. I will never part with it. Rocking a Yamaha 6C

Ida Maria Grassi tenor, a love affair of 3+ years and counting. It's been such a nice relationship it would be very hard or impossible to let it go even if I get something "fancier" some day. But really, I feel like I could play this thing forever, if something's holding me back it definitely isn't this axe. Rolling with a Ponzol

Jupiter low A bari, a new member both in the family (about a month) and by vintage, shiny and all, but seems to be fitting in nicely so far. Needs some tech love, and a lot of practice, but it's been a lot of fun already. I think I could be best at home with a bari, once I get everything sorted gearwise and technique-wise. At the moment I sound pretty bad with it. I think this is likely to get replaced with something less shiny and more expensive in the future, perhaps of american vintage, but you never know! Rocking a Ponzol like Ida Maria above

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All like to hang out on stands ready to play, and sure they are nicer to look at that way too. For longer no-play periods the necks and MPC's go off for ventilation, but they don't often see a case.

Yeah, I keep my three on their stands ready to roll at a moment's notice. I actually have two other tenors. The better is a silver plated Big B which I keep in a case so it doesn't tarnish and because my wife has forgotten I have it and I'd rather not remind her lest she start the "you have too many saxes don't you think?" business again. The other one is a newer old Buescher at my cousin's house in lower New York State where we have spent our summers for almost 20 years. I bought it the summer before this past one to have to play when there. I don't like to take a big sax on the plane if I don't have to. It's just one more thing to carry and there is always the risk that they won't let me carry it on.

 

[Dr G]

Borgani, Borgani, Borgani, Borgani.

 

[Jazz Is All]

Borgani, Borgani, Borgani, Borgani.

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Talk about consistency, WOW. All that silver. You know I have a weakness for it. I had the R&C Deluxe in silver and the B&S Blue Label in silver and I had a Conn NW in silver twice over in my life and of course I have the Captain's former Silver Big B. I love silver, but I don't love that it tarnishes and needs to be polished and cleaned all the time. I never was one to keep my car clean and detailed and my TT alto and Chu Sop both were each totally blingy once at least but I've fallen down on that job.

Great photo of beautiful saxes that I already know play wonderfully. I love the pinky table on the sop. That has got to be a joy to play.

 

[PigSquealer]

I have a big sax family. How can I pick just a few ?

 

[nightprowler]

Three of the 14. My family continues to grow.
Vibrato is a lot of fun to play.
Yani's are the best.

Vibrato Polycarbonate Anniversary Tenor 2019
Yanagisawa T9933 Tenor Solid Silver 2015
Yanagisawa T901B Tenor 2014

1953 Seeburg 100w is enjoyable as well

 

[warp x]

some stuff

 

[Jazz Is All]

some stuff

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Man!! You let your family lie around on the floor like that? What are they, all a bunch of stoners having an orgy?

 

[Reet McVouty]

Borgani, Borgani, Borgani, Borgani.

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I'd love to try a Borgani alto, but I have yet to see one in these here parts. Seems that all my favorite stores are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Music stores, book stores, record stores. Nothing but the big chain places remain. I can't order horns online, don't want to deal with that hassle anymore. Maybe next time I get to NYC I'll hunt one down.

 

[mrpeebee]

I had three saxes, but the backup tenor (Selmer SA80) went last year to someone who actually plays it.
The Selmer SBA tenor and Klingsor alto stayed (even while I never play the alto).

But these are my 'real' family: :mrgreen:

 

[Jazz Is All]

I had three saxes, but the backup tenor (Selmer SA80) went last year to someone who actually plays it.
The Selmer SBA tenor and Klingsor alto stayed (even while I never play the alto).

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But these are my 'real' family: :mrgreen:

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Peebee, are we to take it that you have a billiards table in your house? Or do you run a bar with one in it? Either way that makes you instantly even cooler than you already seem. I knew of your Link to Otto Link before, but didn't realize that you have more of those than humans have teeth. Maybe more than sharks too. LOL. Put those in your mouth and you can look like that guy in the early James Bond movie.

 

[400VI62]

My quartet of Yamahas, Soprano, Alto and Tenor purple logo 62's. The Baritone is a newer 32.

The Soprano and Tenor I bought new in 1985, my Grandmother left me some money in her will so I put it towards the Soprano and the Tenor was a replacement for a Keilwerth King that left the stage literally and was written off, so I paid the excess on the insurance, £90.00 and picked the 62. I have owned the Alto since 2010, and the Baritone for about five years.