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Ricman
11-25-2009, 10:29 PM
Besides me?
:cool:
seafoamer
11-25-2009, 10:30 PM
I can play the woodwinds.
Big White Tele
11-25-2009, 10:31 PM
Alto, and tenor..
Tripower455
11-26-2009, 07:53 AM
My dad plays bari sax in several big bands.......
scottlr
11-26-2009, 10:21 AM
My love of the bari came from Tower of Power! Sadly, I don't play.
DaveF
11-27-2009, 07:38 AM
I played bari sax in jr high and high school band.
bard2dbone
11-27-2009, 07:57 AM
I was a brass player in high school. After a couple of decades of not playing any wind instrument, I found a tenor sax on Craigslist a week ago. It's in the shop getting a bit of rehab currently. But then I get to learn sax.
ROKY
11-27-2009, 07:59 AM
Soprano, Alto Tenor AND Baritone, here.

Bari is a 1931 Conn 12M model .
xroads
11-27-2009, 08:02 AM
I was a brass player in high school. After a couple of decades of not playing any wind instrument, I found a tenor sax on Craigslist a week ago. It's in the shop getting a bit of rehab currently. But then I get to learn sax.

Get a few lessons. Believe me: you CANNOT learn to play the sax without a teacher.

I am a tenor/alto/soprano player myself. Never looked into baritone, but I admire Gerry Mulligan, the stuff from Tower of Power, and the Mingus Big Band.
Bluedawg
11-27-2009, 10:25 AM
One of my small groups is lead by a bari player ... big Gerry Mulligan fan .. we even did K-4 Pacific .. fun tune.

Unfortunately, his job is moving him .. probably to Maryland ... it was great fun playing bass with him.

I also play guitar in a couple of big swing bands ... bari players in both of those bands.


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ROKY
11-27-2009, 12:04 PM
Get a few lessons. Believe me: you CANNOT learn to play the sax without a teacher.

I am a tenor/alto/soprano player myself. Never looked into baritone, but I admire Gerry Mulligan, the stuff from Tower of Power, and the Mingus Big Band.

I loved Pepper Adams, and the modern equivalent is Gary Smulyan.

I love the baritone, but tenor is probably my favorite .
saxophonist56
11-27-2009, 12:07 PM
love bari's. geneseo state college gave me a new MKVI to play when i was in the jazz ensemble. bari's are supposed to be gig magnets.
newking70
11-27-2009, 01:06 PM
you call that a sax?


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ROKY
11-27-2009, 01:15 PM
^^

That looks like a contrabass ..

I was trialing a bass sax from an online store a few years ago, and couldn't justify
using it anywhere, but I sometimes wished I'd kept it cuz it was very affordable
compared to what you could expect to pay

Ahh, well . . .
Brett Valentine
12-01-2009, 02:03 PM
Another fan since Tower of Power and finding the Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond recordings on CD! Been wanting a bass trombone ever since (used to cover Steve Kupka's parts in a horn band loong ago).
Chops
12-01-2009, 02:32 PM
Guitar is all I can handle, but I have always loved the sound of the baritone sax. When I was growing up my Dad had Stan Getz Meets Gerry Mulligan in Hi-Fi, and I really wore that disc out. Man, those two hipsters could wail!
bard2dbone
12-01-2009, 05:15 PM
Another fan since Tower of Power and finding the Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond recordings on CD! Been wanting a bass trombone ever since (used to cover Steve Kupka's parts in a horn band loong ago).
Once I either get a general clue what I'm doing on tenor or get fed up and sell it, I'll probably get some brass instruments again. I started on trumpet, but don't like that bright tone, so probably a flugelhorn. And every year back in scool they'd hand me a larger horn to learn. So I ended up playing all the low brass. So next would likely either a valve trombone or a bass trombone.
2 Loud 4 You
12-01-2009, 05:28 PM
I played Alto from 6th - 10th grade but put it down once I picked up bass. I dug it out many years later and realized how hard it was to play again. I ended up selling it after that.
Brett Valentine
12-01-2009, 05:34 PM
Once I either get a general clue what I'm doing on tenor or get fed up and sell it, I'll probably get some brass instruments again. I started on trumpet, but don't like that bright tone, so probably a flugelhorn. And every year back in scool they'd hand me a larger horn to learn. So I ended up playing all the low brass. So next would likely either a valve trombone or a bass trombone.

Bass trombone with the F and Eb atatchments gives you the best of both worlds, valves and the tone only a slide trombone can give you. Tuba is also cool (for a definite kick, transcribe some Jaco for tuba).