{"id":30543,"date":"2012-02-25T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=30543"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:49:27","slug":"great-varitone-recordings-sonny-stitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/great-varitone-recordings-sonny-stitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Varitone Recordings By Sonny Stitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, while looking for something totally unrelated, I happened across an interesting blog article written by Marc Myers, for his blog JazzWax<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux<\/a><\/em>, Myers notes the 13, yes, you read that right, 13 albums on which Sonny Stitt used a Selmer Varitone. However, in introducing the Selmer Varitone saxophone, Myers isn’t all that kind to Selmer’s electrification of Adolph Sax’s most famous invention.<\/p>\n

Myers writes:<\/p>\n

[T]he Varitone’s sound wasn’t that electric sounding nor was it anything like the electronic hookups that would be attached to trumpets in later years to make them sound like piercing guitars. Instead, the Varitone merely made the saxophone sound as if it had swallowed a kazoo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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     Source: tcgakki.com<\/h6>\n

A kazoo? Really? I guess he hadn’t heard this demonstration video of a 1965 Selmer Varitone, by Kunikazu Tanaka.<\/p>\n