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Common Soprano Saxophone Issues

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About Soprano Saxophone Mouthpieces | Choosing Your Soprano Mouthpiece | Common Soprano Saxophone Issues | LEARN
Meeting Clients In The Shop: Working Together

CUSTOM FITTING FOR A SOPRANO SAX MOUTHPIECE Part 1 There have been a lot of players through my small shop over the last 10 years, players that have come from as far away as Brazil and Japan to work with … Read More

February 4, 2020 0
Common Soprano Saxophone Issues | LEARN
Common Problems for Soprano Players

There are a handful of common problems for soprano players that show up all the time in my correspondence. If you’ve been playing soprano for a while, these issues may be familiar to you, but if you are relatively new … Read More

August 21, 2019 0
Common Soprano Saxophone Issues | LEARN
Flat Table or Concave Table?

This will be short. The whole idea that some manufacturers of sax mouthpieces actually design their pieces to have concave tables is ludicrous, both in theory and practice. Let’s start with the theory: the concavity is there so that the … Read More

November 19, 2018 0
Common Soprano Saxophone Issues
Case of The Flat Top End

Here’s one that came to me a while back. I called it the Case of The Flat Top End. I have a client who could not play his Sopranoplanet mouthpiece in tune on his soprano. The top end would be … Read More

August 4, 2017 0
Common Soprano Saxophone Issues | LEARN
Resistance and Stuffiness on Soprano

Resistance and stuffiness on soprano sax is an important topic because so many players encounter it, using almost every mouthpiece and almost every horn. Almost always, too, they conclude that the tip opening is too small. So they get what … Read More

November 13, 2016 0
Common Soprano Saxophone Issues
Case of The Disappearing Top End

If you’ve played enough different soprano saxophones, you already know that they can be very different, one to the next, in how they “speak” : how the sound is created. Some speak easily over the entire range; others speak one … Read More

October 28, 2016 0
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