Bari sax notea5/19/2023 ![]() Put the Rico bari mpc back on and wasnt as disappointed as yesterday. So I tried that today and was quite pleased. I couldnt get low but the high notes were fine. I remember when it first arrived I had no mpc so I tried it with a tenor mpc. Snuck home for siesta and had a session with the bari. Good luck with your bari and Keep On Honkin'! On the other side the high notes are hard to control. The baffle is taken down a little to get less stuffy low tones. Or you fly up to Sweden and have a Rocksax workshop as well in october/november. If you want to try my old Dukoff D chamber I can send it to you. I often play in concert G, A and E (bari E, F#, C#) so I did long tones in these keys to get used to the keys and fingerings as well. I use my baritone in hornsection in blues-, R&B-, soul, rockmusic but I try to play a solo as well. But few saxes beats my Martin when it comes to the low tones. My friend is blowing a Yanagisawa stencil (low A) and it's a better sax when it comes to intonation and playablity on the high tones. I play baritone for the low tones, not the high tones! And my bari is a The Martin and they are not known for having the best upper register. I will send it off after the summer for some panel beating and an overhaul, but how does your bari sound up high? Its not as hard to play as I thought it would be, but I didnt have too much trouble going to tenor after 2 years of alto. Pretty well the same up higher, almost impossible for me to sound low down. Thinking the reed might be closing up I went out and bought a Vandoren 3 yesterday, (8 euros!!!! but all I could get as a single) and it is no better. I have a cheap Rico 5 mpc which I bought cos it was cheap, no idea what will be best for me so had to start somewhere, and bought too Rico plasticised 2 reeds. You wonder why you would hump such a big bit of brass around for such a puny sound. With thumb on the octave key the thing sounds strangled. G is the trickiest note of all for me just now, but I can get it if I see it coming. Its splendid down low, and not that hard to play right down. Thumb on octave key and most of the power of the creature disappears. What I am after is the answer to my baris sound in the upper octave. ![]() ![]() Well, we wont tell anyone else about that. ![]() I did not know that all baris are Eb, I thought mine was Bb. I have been trying to find answers to bari questions this morning and have found lots of good info, interesting stuff, including I am ashamed to say, that my Bb bari is called so because of its lowest note, not its transposing. Hi, I am playing a lot more sax now I have moved back into the country, so I am here more often. ![]()
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