This one time, at band camp!

[Jaged]

I play the clarinet. (clarinets > *) I had braces for the first few years that I played it. It didnnot hurt that much. When I got them of the sound quality went eay up, though.

[Onizuka]

Originally posted by Lexington_Steele
Do you know the history of the saxaphone? It was designed to imitate the sound of horns. In it's design, it is nothing more than wanabe brass instrament.

You also do realize that 99% of all professional orchestras travel and play with any saxaphones. They usually only have a few on call for the few pieces that require them. The saxaphonists are not full time employees of the orchestras. The Saxaphone is just not a member of the modern orchestra nor has it ever been.

can you be anymore WRONG!

first of all, the first sax was a bass. It was supposed to be an easier to play french horn because of its mid range, but with fingerings like the clarinet.

It was made in the 1840s by adolphe sax and grew much more popular in the early 1920s.

It is not in orchestras because it was so new and composers just didnt write many parts for it.

It doesnt want to be a brass intrument. Its sound is more in between a clarinet and an oboe.

Its range is greater then any band instrument. prove me wrong.

[xuur]

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Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
I played Sex with braces. For 3 years, and I'm still playing. Weak-ass.


But Band sex, I have no long for the Sexophone anymore after band giving me so many crappy songs.
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This isn't what he posted but it's what I saw.

Mtx, go check out the HOT GIRLS<Not Work Safe thread for awhile.

You'll feel better and the halucinations will....subside

[Lexington_Steele]

Originally posted by Onizuka
can you be anymore WRONG!

first of all, the first sax was a bass. It was supposed to be an easier to play french horn because of its mid range, but with fingerings like the clarinet.

It was made in the 1840s by adolphe sax and grew much more popular in the early 1920s.

It is not in orchestras because it was so new and composers just didnt write many parts for it.

It doesnt want to be a brass intrument. Its sound is more in between a clarinet and an oboe.

Its range is greater then any band instrument. prove me wrong.

Where was I wrong? You yourself said it was made to be like a horn.

[Onizuka]

it wasnt made to be a brass instrument, at least not to my knowledge.

[OneManArmy]

mmm... band dorks pick up all the chicks....

[Sputty]

Too bad anime dorks can't

[OneManArmy]

yea... even your Magic and D&D dorks can't...... but luckily I was a band dork back in the day.... (though not for very long all the groupies were wearing me out)

[Sputty]

Probably not, but I don't know that many

[Onizuka]

Originally posted by Sputty
Too bad anime dorks can't

*snarls*

[Mr1337Duck]

Adolphe Antoine Sax developed the saxophone in Belgium, I believe. He experimented with lots of different combinations of mouthpeices, shapes, horns, etc. He didn't get much popularity in Belgium, he moved somewhere else where several musical geniuses said it was good. He then got down a final design and since, it's been modified a whole bunch.

It was designed to get the effects of a bunch of different instruments, clarinets, trumpets, etc.

Thus, it plays the whole slew of notes, that's what it was designed for. It's not extremely low, nor extremely high, but it plays the greatest variety of notes.

[Onizuka]

Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
Thus, it plays the whole slew of notes, that's what it was designed for. It's not extremely low, nor extremely high, but it plays the greatest variety of notes.

the bass sax is in like tuba range, and yes IT IS EXTREMELY HIGH. its called altissimo. even sax himself said it was a 5 octave instrument. Its very high.