Yay, new forum !

[Jazz Ad]

Welcome to this new area, a forum dedicated to wind instruments.
Sax, bass clarinet, kazoo, harmonica, french horn, didgeridoo, bassoon, everyone's welcome.

sunburstbasser and I will be your mods for the time being.
I'm mainly a half-decent bass player and singer but also the not-so-well-known worst tenor sax player in the World. Anyway, I love brass sections and wind instruments as a whole.

I hope this area will become a warm and welcoming place to chat and share info about wind instruments.
Feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself. I'm pretty sure HC forums are full of unrecognized wind musicians.

Also, please pass the word to your fellow wind/brass musicians. They're not used to come to HC forums and may enjoy it.

Regarding rules, no breeze, apply the general Terms of Use (http://www.harmony-central.com/terms.html) and everything shall be fine.

Have fun and blow that horn !

[Abrasion]

Back in the day :)


I was never great though :( sight reading got the better of me :(

[Piñata Tsunami]

Seriously??? So did I. Weird world. Played the sax for four years, haven't touched the instrument in 15 years now. Forgotten everything. :freak:

[Abrasion]

I never knew it to forget :(

[Abrasion]

I still have it knocking about the place somewhere actually. I think my mother had aspirations to learn to play, never really caught on though :confused:

[Piñata Tsunami]

Me too, I have a soprano saxophone lying around. Old, beat up thing. Perhaps I should try to relearn it; I wouldn't think the neighbours'd appreciate it, though.

[Trace-P38]

Wow! Nice shiny new forum. Kinda breezy in here.....

[hammergjh]

Me too. Still have my alto. It's 40 years old now. Not worth fixing.

It might still honk a little.

[Phil O'Keefe]

I played reeds for years, but have not picked one up in ages. :( But I AM itchin' to get a new sax at some point, and even have spouse approval, so I may be visiting and participating in here from time to time. Fair warning. ;) :D

Congrats on the new forum Jazz. :thu:

[Jazz Ad]

I've never taken lessons or been good at sax but I toy with it.
One day I may take the time to be a real player.

[Abrasion]

Just don't be one of those kids that plays that one line from Baker Street over and over, badly :o



please :o

[AntiStuff]

Good to know this thing has an awesome mod. I've been wanting a woodwind forum on HC.

[Jazz Ad]

If nothing else, thanks for the props. :)
Do you play any wind instrument ?

[AntiStuff]

I play Alto, Tenor, and Bari saxes, although I only own an Alto.
I also play Trimpet and Tuba, but not nearly as well as sax. I'm actually better at sax than bass.

[whiskee]

I've never liked how sax's sound and stuff, so I won't stalk anyone in this forum...

[elsongs]

I played the tenor sax back in junior high/high school (circa 1985-1989). Marching band and Jazz band. After graduating I played a little alto my first year or so of college.

years gone by...

continued my singing and keyboard playing, and developed or improved my guitar and bass skills...

...in 1995 the sax player of my band let me play his tenor, and that was it for a long time...

...flash forward to 2005. Influenced by such things as friends playing tenor sax and watching streetcorner brass bands play in (pre Katrina) New Orleans, I got inspired and...

...In January 2006, after making a new year's resolution, I bought an alto sax.

Played it, and after a few minutes, it was like picking up where I left off. Cool, huh?

So if you wanna get back into the sax, by all means do it!

[Rowka]

Does this count?

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/WNAMM98/Yamaha/WX5.jpg

[Jazz Ad]

You play clarinet synth ?

[Rowka]

It's a yamaha WX5 wind midi controller I've got mated with a Yama VL70-m tone generator.

The WX senses breath (the harder you blow, the louder the note), embouchure (you can effectively do small pitch bends by tightening/losening your lips) and it has a saxaphone note fingering pattern.

I'm playing tonight, actually.

[quilt_top]

I started playing alto sax in the 5th grade and I had a 14 block walk to school. It was pure torture carrying the sax all that way.:(

In the 80's, I was a paratrooper in the Army and one day, I heard that the base band needed musicians so I went and auditioned just for yucks. I made the grade and for the next 3 years, I played tenor sax, guitar and sang in front of thousands of people including foriegn dignitaries, high ranking military and various politicians.

It was great playing with such a talented group of people without all the typical baggage that musicians generally carry.:thu:

My son started alto saxophone lessons last year.

[sunburstbasser]

I've got a pair of trumpets, an ancient Conn student model and a more recent Bach TR200. I've also been borrowing a school Yamaha and even a flugelhorn.

I'm selling the Bach this summer and getting something decent. I'm leaning towards Kanstul right now, maybe Schilke.

Its a good thing we got this forum. Now I don't have to register at another one:thu:

I'll actually be switching from bass to trumpet as my major instrument next year.

[AntiStuff]

Originally posted by quilt_top
I started playing alto sax in the 5th grade and I had a 14 block walk to school. It was pure torture carrying the sax all that way.:(

I am totally with you on that one. Although it's not quite as bad as having to carry a sousaphone in the Cherry Blossom parade in DC though. And having an asshole band director who makes the band march the whole entire way back to the buses. :mad:

[quilt_top]

Originally posted by AntiStuff

And having an asshole band director who makes the band march the whole entire way back to the buses. :mad:

Talking about asshole dierctors, my 8th grade band director used to throw his baton at us kids who played the wrong notes or just sounded bad. :mad: He's lucky nobody got their eye taken out with his temper tantrums.

If he did that now? And with my son???? :evil:

[xavios]

I would just like to say, moving the "this forum blows!" thread to OJ was a beautiful move!:D

[Jazz Ad]

I too thought it was a good idea. :)

[phildogger]

J/k, good luck with the new forum!

[Crypticscott]

:o

[pondo sinatra]

I was gonna troll this!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Jazz Ad]

No wind forum would be complete without her.
http://www.danger-seekers.com/top5/images/loveamericanpie.jpg

[Cosmic_Monkey]

I wanna see her do it!!!

[-=MYK=-]

That wasn't very nice....:mad:

[taylor210eman]

I play saxophone, mostly Alto and Tenor, with a bari on occasion. Funny thing is I think I'm a much better player on sax then on guitar, even though I've been playing guitar about twice as long as saxophone.

[Mr. Botch]

Hi all!

I'm primarily a keyboard player in a weekend band, but bought my first tenor sax three years ago with an unexpected tax return. I played trombone from gradeschool thru college jazz band, so I had the breathing/tonguing down pretty much, just needed to learn sax fingering. I decided not to use it on stage until I could make it sound better than a "synth" sax patch, that took about two years. Still making a few wrong note choices and squeaks, but it sure is fun and the crowd seems to dig it.

Bought a fire-sale-priced soprano about a year ago, but haven't done too much with it (yet).

I've got a Jupiter Artist tenor (silver w/gold keys), with Dukoff metal mouthpiece, #2 plastic reed, and the new Samson Artist clip-on wireless mic.

Looking forward to this new forum!

[Thunderbroom]

http://melody-music.net/files/JawHarp.jpg

I'm planning to get one.
:thu:

[Jazz Ad]

Jaw Herp ?
Political correctness found its way it seems.
It's not a wind instrument buddy. Sorry :(

[-=MYK=-]

Originally posted by Jazz Ad
Jaw Herp ?
Political correctness found its way it seems.
It's not a wind instrument buddy. Sorry :(

You're obviously wrong.

Just look at the package.

[Tonemeister87]

I knew you'd be in the first arguement Mikey ;)


:D

[Tonemeister87]

:freak:

[Jazz Ad]

If your conception of a flying forum implies 10 girlie threads on each page then no, it probably isn't going to take off. :)

[-=MYK=-]

Originally posted by Tonemeister69
I knew you'd be in the first arguement Mikey ;)


:D

I'm just pissed because he won't even argue back.:(

It's less fun to just argue one side...:mad: :D :p

[Goo]

What are the rules?

[Jazz Ad]

All in the sticky.
You broke a couple already.

[Goo]

Originally posted by Jazz Ad
All in the sticky.
You broke a couple already.

:o

:(

[Tonemeister87]

Originally posted by Jazz Ad
If your conception of a flying forum implies 10 girlie threads on each page then no, it probably isn't going to take off. :)

i don't do Girlie threads. It was a parody ;)

[Jazz Ad]

Yeah I know.
Wind musicians aren't used to frequent HC.
I'm confident in the future of this forum but it may take a while to get crowded.

[sunburstbasser]

Originally posted by Jazz Ad
Yeah I know.
Wind musicians aren't used to frequent HC.
I'm confident in the future of this forum but it may take a while to get crowded.

I could post the link at the Trumpet Herald. I might do that later.

[Super Rad!]

I've been hoping a forum like this would be added for years. It's especially great timing as I'm going to start learning Trombone.

[Sneaky6]

...this forum BLOWS!:D :thu:





PS...I used to play clarinet :o :p :D

[hottness]

Just checking in over here. Nice place.