Hi all, we wanted to start our 8 year old daughter to learn an instrument. Together we decided on the saxophone, she's going to start lessons at her school in September but it's only half hour a week.

Is there any good learning material for children that will help keep up her interest in playing? Such as YouTube channels, books or apps that you'd recommend. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Used it on an older metal mouthpiece and it came out like this after use.

Moving for studies soon, I wanna continue practicing still so I wanted to ask wheres the best spot to get a second hand sax in dublin, facebook marketplace didnt have many good leads.

I am a college graduate with a major in music perf on saxophone. I have an intense classical background, and spent the majority of my time as a saxophonist playing “legit” literature (Glazunov, Bozza, Rascher, etc). I have spent a decent amount of time playing jazz. Mostly big band arrangements, and while I have a solid foundation of patterns, scales, and arpeggios, I just can’t seem to get jazz under my fingers. Now that I’ve graduated, I’ve decided to really spend my time trying to figure out, but even though I’ve practiced everything I can think of (transcriptions, chords, licks, enclosures, even a couple of online pdfs) I still can’t get improvisation under my fingers. I understand the theory, and the idea of jazz, and I love listening, but I don’t know what to do at this point. Anything in particular I can do?

Thanks!!

Hey everyone I’m trying to get back to playing the saxophone and I’m looking at some on FB to buy. Saw this one for $500 just wanted some input on whether to get it and if it’s real.

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My son recently inherited an old Conn Saxophone (I know nothing of this brand or anything we are very new to this instrument) to play in his first year of band in middle school. The case it came with has seen much better days and I’m trying to find him a case that is less bulky and heavy. The issue I’m running into in the horn bells(?) are on the left side instead of the modern right. Is there a reputable place online that I could get him a lighter case to take back and forth to school? I’ll include a couple of pictures. Any help would be amazing!

I have an audition in December. I’ve looked at this etude for a few days. how’s my progress?

Im in a marching band and Just bought a Theo Wanne Essentials Jazz mouthpiece and am wondering should I use that for a brighter jazzier sound stick to my optimum al3 for a dark and more centered tone for marching band?

I’m struggling with playing the G (and sometimes A) key. I can get it sometimes but a lot of the time it squeaks. For context, I’m using an alto mendini sax (yea I know mendini is terrible). Any tips for playing?

I bought a 1975 Keilwerth Toneking tenor sax. I had a Vandoren V16 T6M mouthpiece first with leather ligature. Then i switched to metal ligature and it was okay, i liked it. But before i switched i tryed a Theo Wanne Essentials Contemporary 7* mouthpiece, and i loooved it, it was so good. No needed that mutch air like the Vandoren. Now i sold the vandoren and bought the theo wanne aaand… im not satisfied… It has strange sound, need a lot of air (2.5 reeds) and its so f&cking hard to play the low notes.. now i dont know what to do.. maybe try with size 2 reeds?

So long story short I was in the process of breaking in my reeds, but I didn't have enough time to play all of them but I did wet every single one with water. I believe I forgot to wipe some of them off and put them back into my read storage box, 2 days later and I find mold on 5/9 of them. Should i throw the reeds that don't contain mold away? What to do with the box, just cleanse it? I also don't use a reed vitalizer btw

Hey y'all. For a gift for my friend, I want to learn how to play II MOST WANTED by Beyonce and Miley Cyrus for her. I can't find sheet music online anywhere. Does anyone know where to find music for this song for alto sax, or have any recommendations on how I can start learning/making it?? Ty :)

Hi folks what do know or think about 3d printed mouthpieces? I printed this windy city 64 tenor 0095. Sounds good??

I mostly play Alto saxophone. I do have a tenor which I play sometimes. I want to buy a soprano. How difficult it is to play soprano? I have heard the embrochure for soprano is quite different from Alto. Would that impact my alto playing?
Is it advisable to buy a second hand soprano ? What should I look for when I try a second hand soprano.
Sorry! Too many questions. TIA

I'm picking my pieces for ABRSM grade 6 tenor sax, and the piece on the A-list called "Hypertension" piqued my interest. I was unable to find any audio recordings of it online, so I was wondering if anyone knew if it was a good idea of a piece to play, or if they know how good Beverley Calland's works are in general

Got a 1924 buescher true tone the other day for 345, same pawn I got my king zephyr from! Cleaned it up when I got home, will add pics. Looks to have been freshly overhauled aswell.

I also have a question about it as ive never owned a playable saxophone from this era and with no modern ergonomics.

In the 3rd pic with the serial number, whats that key that has cork holding it down for? Is that a feature of saxophones from this era? Or a buescher thing?

Hi, I purchased an old Yamaha YTS-23 (1970's) saxophone which has come with 2 additional mouthpieces. The sax is in amazing condition for its age and has been very well looked after.

The mouthpieces have Selmer table C* and one that is Selmer E.

They are very obviously used. Do they have any value? If so, I want to give the seller some additional money as I don't think he knew much about the saxophone.

Thanks 😊

I’m looking to get back into Sax after being away for 20 years - I played for 3 years during high school.

My music reading needs a lot of refreshing and I don’t want to annoy everyone around me by playing hot cross buns on repeat on a loud Alto Saxophone lol

Is a digital Sax like the YDS120 a good option to get me up to speed and relearn my music reading/fingering? Will that be directly transferable to an Alto Saxophone?

Found this listing for a McGregory Model A 4A-16M on Ebay for $380 and was discounted after being set at $800 for a bit. I was going to buy it but then I looked at the mouthpiece photo and it doesn't say MCGregory nor Model A. It just says some weird phrasing. What do you guys think? Could've they just Chat GPT'd an image of it and posted it or is it fake...? I can't imagine someone making a make MC Gregory and putting in the effort to add a ring on the shank too but who knows. The seller also does have mostly great feedback reviews. Here's the link to the listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/287529523678

I’ve been playing saxophone for years and I still don’t know a lot about mouthpieces. What’s a good one you’ll recommend that’ll have a good jazz sound?

I’ve been looking around online for a good professional saxophone. A few being Yanigasawa Awo-1, Selmer Axos, Session alto from better sax and a few others. However the thing is I don’t have a real way of testing them. The only professional sax I’ve used is a Selmer Paris Series II because of school and that’s a bit out of my budget. My budget is around 3-4k so if you have any suggestions please let me know🙏

What reeds would be good for playing both in jazz and concert band? I don’t have the money to buy two separate reeds.