As a kid, I was always concious of the sax for reasons unbeknownst to me (including bad 80's rock and homeless players on the street). When I expressed interest in the 6th grade they stuck me with a clarinet and the promise of a sax after a year. After a year of no squeaks I still didn't get the sax so I quit. 10 years later I somehow (again, unbeknownst to me) started to develop an ear for jazz and happened to hear a Lester Young song on the radio and after hearing him play enough times I figured I had to give it another shot. This time I went right out and bought myself a tenor.

hmm. i too was started as a clarinetest, b/c an alto would cost too much. but i did like playing the clarinet and never thought of playing alto sax again untli 9th grade, 5 years later, when i took lessons over the summer from my schools band director, who is a sax player. then just this year i played bari for school concert, and i just bought my first soprano sax. and tenor is next on the list after i work w/ soprano for a while, maybe next spring.

My grandfather was a piano player and square dance caller. He wound up with a Holton C-mel after a good poker hand one night. I bought a tenor reed put it on the old ceramic/lead mouthpiece and played part of "joy to the world" a three dog night song that was popular at the time. I was in first grade. He gave the sax to me and I wore out the springs playing it. By then I was in the fourth grade music class and my teacher was transposing flute music for me (I guess bringing it down an octave). I remember playing the Holton with rubber bands on it to do the work of the springs.Another kid had a rented tenor that he let me play.We both knew that I could play better that he could, so after that, I begged my parents to rent me a tenor.They wouldn't budge,but then my band teacher found the money to buy a new Vito for the school. I played it till I graduated high school.Then my parents bought me a new Yamaha yts-61 that I payed all through college. I still have the Holton and the Yamaha

I have 3 holy, great fantastic words for you. JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE (RIP 1926-1966)

The knights templar state: Sound ,shape they are synonomous.When Adolf Sax invented the thing, he could never of dreamed of what people could do with it. He died before hearing some of the greatest music ever.There is an element in a saxophone which taps into the rebel in all of us. Unwittingley the saxophone is desighned for for jazz.Its so brilliant that we believe that can it can be used to be the ultimate in being the highest form of exeqution on a musical instrument. The ultimate in freedom of Expression. That is of course that you do enough in your life to have the experience to tell a good story.( Bird lives)

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My uncle plays Jazz and Blues guitar around bars and restuarants in town. I really look up to him, so maybe thats why i took the path of Tenor and Alto Saxophones!