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Post by belgiumreporter on Nov 10, 2015 5:25:09 GMT -5
On one of my recent camera hunts i came home with somemore than i've expected... The local recycling store had a " vintage electronics special" so a minolta 5000i with two lenses, a sekonic spot meter,an akai gx77 reel to reel deck and a B&O reciever changed hands all for a bit less than 40 €. It allways puzzles me how good (but not high end) gear falls from grace so deeply that it can be picked up for next to nothing. Is it really the abundance of such goods that makes up the price? The sax is another story, it took some explaining to my wife how on earth this had something to do with me collecting cameras, guess i just can't resist shiny objects???
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Post by Rachel on Nov 10, 2015 5:28:50 GMT -5
Love the reel-to-reel tape recorder. I have a small collection of them.
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Post by dee on Nov 10, 2015 18:27:12 GMT -5
i like the B&O Receiver !
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Post by hansz on Nov 11, 2015 2:57:37 GMT -5
Shiny objects? A new Paul Desmond, I say!!
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Post by belgiumreporter on Nov 11, 2015 10:15:02 GMT -5
Shiny objects? A new Paul Desmond, I say!! Hansz, it'll probably take forever for me to blow "take five" out of that horn, but meanwhile i can enjoy taking pictures of it :-)
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Post by camfiend on Nov 15, 2015 16:49:17 GMT -5
Amazing what people don't want anymore.. we've certainly become a throw away society.. not me though I have a reputation for throwing nothing away.. if I can't find a use for it anymore I buy a couple of others, put them on a shelf and call it a collection re-cycling shops are one of my favourite places
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Post by Stephen on Nov 15, 2015 17:13:44 GMT -5
I presume that you have tried playing a Saxophone before.......out of curiosity what maker is it? I have a soft spot for older Alto Saxophones and have one under restoration at the moment, not sure of the maker without more research. Mine is down for a complete overhaul, complete clean, lacquer and oil, new leather seals, finger tip rests etc, and a new adjustable playing strap. It is fitted with a metal mouthpiece, but takes trimmed standard reeds, after a struggle at first to get any notes!It produces overtones far to easily at the moment, but that's down to the player. Scale is good. but a bit sharp on upper notes. I think it dates from the 1920's at earliest. Not up to Jazz standard, but I can get a tune out of it, which is more than I can on other instruments.
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Post by philbirch on Nov 17, 2015 15:27:01 GMT -5
I played an alto and a clarinet at school and for some time later til my early 20's. Getting a good sound out of it is a combination of lip over bottom teeth, where exactly it goes along the reed and the thickness and moistness of the reed. I squealed badly, which is why I eventually gave up - that and the dog having nervous fits as soon as I got it out. She's hide, crap on the floor, fart and howl. I wasn't that bad a player. Honestly
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Post by belgiumreporter on Nov 17, 2015 16:06:00 GMT -5
I presume that you have tried playing a Saxophone before.......out of curiosity what maker is it? I have a soft spot for older Alto Saxophones and have one under restoration at the moment, not sure of the maker without more research. Mine is down for a complete overhaul, complete clean, lacquer and oil, new leather seals, finger tip rests etc, and a new adjustable playing strap. It is fitted with a metal mouthpiece, but takes trimmed standard reeds, after a struggle at first to get any notes!It produces overtones far to easily at the moment, but that's down to the player. Scale is good. but a bit sharp on upper notes. I think it dates from the 1920's at earliest. Not up to Jazz standard, but I can get a tune out of it, which is more than I can on other instruments. Stephen. Stephen, it is an B&S Markneukirchen Klingental series 500 wich can be dated back to 2002. Markneukirchen Klingetal is a (former) East German instrument maker wich kept on producing brass and woodwind instruments after the fall of the wall. They discontinued their complete sax range in 2005. A lot of people like these saxes and they're supposed to (with the right read) give a nice jazzy sound others hate them... I was able to blow two notes out of it but that was as far as i've got with the memories of music class some 50 years ago. I did find this you tuber very helpfull in bringing back some memories and basics of sax playing :
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Post by hansz on Nov 17, 2015 16:54:02 GMT -5
In my student time (45 years ago) I played the bassoon... Lately I was allowed to touch one - it was so hard to get a tone out of the instrument... almost embarrasing:-(
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Post by SidW on Nov 17, 2015 19:07:32 GMT -5
I played an alto and a clarinet at school and for some time later til my early 20's. Getting a good sound out of it is a combination of lip over bottom teeth, where exactly it goes along the reed and the thickness and moistness of the reed. I squealed badly, which is why I eventually gave up - that and the dog having nervous fits as soon as I got it out. She's hide, crap on the floor, fart and howl. I wasn't that bad a player. Honestly My father did the same, clarinet and sax, playing in a danceband every weekend and practicing every evening between, and the dog howling in the kitchen, only stopping to catch the odd mouse. His speciality was a glissando through the full range of the clarinet, imagining he was Glen Miller, and the dog howled even more.
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Post by Stephen on Nov 17, 2015 19:19:07 GMT -5
I played an alto and a clarinet at school and for some time later til my early 20's. Getting a good sound out of it is a combination of lip over bottom teeth, where exactly it goes along the reed and the thickness and moistness of the reed. I squealed badly, which is why I eventually gave up - that and the dog having nervous fits as soon as I got it out. She's hide, crap on the floor, fart and howl. I wasn't that bad a player. Honestly Now......... it can't have been as bad as a School Recorder Concert, the thought of which still sets my teeth one edge 60 years later. I was, and still am, convinced that Dolmetsch, who revived modern interest in the Recorder, was completely tone deaf. Personally interest in the Recorder can fade as fast as it did prior to Dolmetsch revival of the dreadful infernal instrument. Stephen.
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Post by Stephen on Nov 17, 2015 19:21:49 GMT -5
It was always said that dogs did not like reed instruments, they must produce ultrasonic notes only a dog can hear.
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Post by hansz on Nov 18, 2015 3:22:34 GMT -5
Ah...recorder!!! I played (and still play the Soprano and Alto) the recorder for many years, but only when my wife is out - otherwise it is the end to our 40+yr relationship... She must have a better ear for music than I have.
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Post by Stephen on Nov 18, 2015 9:18:46 GMT -5
I should make it clear, a single recorder is OK, it id the discordant wail that accompanies a recorder group that is really bad!...add in a couple of kids miss fingering......Uhg!!
Stephen
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