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Hello everyone!
I have been playing alto sax for about 9 years now, and have expanded to playing bari for the symphony orchestra at my high school about a year ago, as we do not have a bassoon player. After being close to the cutoff for district band in a very competitive area, my director suggested I try out on both alto and bari this year, which I intend to do. The question I have is regarding setup.
On my alto (Yamaha 62-III), I use a Selmer c* and a Vandoren MO ligature with Vandoren red box Java 3 reeds. Currently on bari I play on a Yamaha 5C mouthpiece with blue box Vandoren 3 and it gets the job done sounding 'bassoon' like, but to obtain the bari sax sound I am looking for would I be able to use the same setup I do on alto, or does the experimental trial and error period come back into play on a different horn?
Thank you all!!
I have been playing alto sax for about 9 years now, and have expanded to playing bari for the symphony orchestra at my high school about a year ago, as we do not have a bassoon player. After being close to the cutoff for district band in a very competitive area, my director suggested I try out on both alto and bari this year, which I intend to do. The question I have is regarding setup.
On my alto (Yamaha 62-III), I use a Selmer c* and a Vandoren MO ligature with Vandoren red box Java 3 reeds. Currently on bari I play on a Yamaha 5C mouthpiece with blue box Vandoren 3 and it gets the job done sounding 'bassoon' like, but to obtain the bari sax sound I am looking for would I be able to use the same setup I do on alto, or does the experimental trial and error period come back into play on a different horn?
Thank you all!!