I had a bad note once. It said: Dear Jim, I have put up with your loud music all hours of the night, and coming home late smelling like beer and cigarette smoke long enough. You have yet to find a real job! You are not very affectionate with me anymore. It seems as if the only thing you care about anymore are your damn saxophones. Well, I can't take it anymore. When you come home from your gig, I will be gone and out of your life for good! PS. I'm taking the cat with me!

Can you imagine how bad somebody's life would be if they said that that was a good note? Anyway, i have a jean baptiste alto and there is almost alwys something wrong when i play the middle e and f. it sounds as if something in my sax is rattling around, ad i just got it fixed up a month ago. Could it be a loose resonator thing?

i'm pretty sure that was a note from his clarinet.

sounds like pads not sealing to me...but take it to a good technician to check with a light and reset the pads...or replace if they're too bad and Jim...very very funny

Oh yea, gotta love them bad notes. Jim, you're lucky she didn't take some of the saxes with her!!!! I agree with Cali, I played on a Bundy II tenor for a while and I had to make sure I articulated the note or it came out like something dying...to say the least.