I always love photos of saxophones by themselves on stage. It’s like they’re saying: Look at me. Yes, I’m a saxophone. But yes, we can be stars in our own right as well. This is especially true of the baritone sax, whose lines are often buried behind the walls of electronic sound in today’s music.
That’s probably why I liked this photo taken at the 2011 Great British R&B Festival. Here the bari is currently enjoying some space—something it won’t have once the music starts.
Sax
Photography by: nogger Source: Flickr
The sax belongs to Gary Hoole of the The Revolutionaires. This 1950s R&B group from the UK, is a 4-piece combo that feature: guitar, double bass, drums, sax, and all 4 members on vocals (1 lead and 3 backing).
Does anyone know what brand of sax this is? I’m not so up on the modern, Asian horns, but I know I’ve seen that bell to body support ring before. I just can’t remember on what brand. I wasn’t successful in finding it on Google this morning either.
I might be wrong, but I believe it’s a Schiller American heritage baritone saxophone. The only reason I recognized it, is because I have the same horn. I play it regularly in my high schools jazz band so I’m no pro, but I quite like it, but maybe I got a particularly nice one
Hi Sean. Wow! Good eyes. It took some poking around on their website before I found a bell to body ring that looked like this, but you are correct. It is indeed a Schiller.
I can’t understand however, why a company would order different bell to body braces for their horns. Normally those are one of the features that companies use to make their horns instantly identifiable… Oh well…
Edit: I was trying to upload an image and realize that the comment image software plugin is not working any more. I just spent the last 45 minutes trying to get it working. I am so frustrated…. Ugh…. Somedays I hate computers and software…. 😈