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Yesterday I noticed a vintage photo on eBay of tenor saxophonist Corky Corcoran. Now I must admit, this was a name that I hadn’t heard in years. I think the last time was likely in the 80s, when one of my private instructors mentioned him as one of the tenor …
When I wrote the pages on the modern B&S saxophones for my website recently, I had tracked down many of the stencil names that VMI made horns under. Of course there was no way to know just how many differently-branded B&S horns were built between 1991-2006, so I suspected more …
Seven years ago a six note sax riff by a Eurovision contestant nearly broke the Internet. Moldova’s Sunstroke Project introduced the world to a then-unknown alto player—who still remains largely nameless to the world at large, except by the nickname: Epic Sax Guy. Epic Sax Guy has been subject of …
Over the years I have written about a number of both vintage and modern starter saxophones. There has been the Buescher Academy, the Schiller American Heritage Kids Series, as well as the Alphasax. (You can debate amongst yourselves if the Vibratosax is a starter saxophone or not.) Now we have …
Some of the most popular archived articles on this site are those about Bobby Dukoff, and specifically those about his mouthpieces. One thing that I have not done to date however, is include an article that includes an example of Dukoff’s own playing style. Many of us who use his …
Whenever I google news searches for saxophone, I am always surprised how many saxophone theft stories inevitably pop up. It is really quite remarkable how many people have their saxophones stolen in the course of a month. (And don’t even get me started on those asshats who have broken into …
In this day of phishing; spoofing; identity theft; salami slicing, spam; trojan horses; and a seemingly endless supply of Nigerians who claim that they desperately need to get their money out of their home country, there seems to be no end to the lengths that some scammers will go to …
I have written a few articles over the years about the crash of the vintage saxophone market. Time-wise, it is correlated to the crash in the economy in 2008/09. I don’t believe any of us have any definitive answers as to why the market on non-Selmers crashed, but we can …
This morning I happened across this interesting water clock that was in set up in Dinant, Belgium in 2014. Based on the banner in the pic, it was obviously part of the city’s 200th anniversary celebrations of Adolphe Sax’s birth. (Like Sax200, at the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels.) It …
Could it be that your sax playing leads to divorce for you? Does your partner like your saxophone playing? Are you an evening person? Do you like practicing into the late hours of the night, or into the early morning hours? Depending on how you answered these questions, you could …