{"id":33314,"date":"2012-08-13T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=33314"},"modified":"2024-06-02T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:04:37","slug":"saxophone-haters-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/saxophone-haters-days\/","title":{"rendered":"More Saxophone Haters From Days Gone By"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always interesting to take a look back in time, and see how our instruments were written about back in the day.<\/em> Clearly whoever wrote the following, was not a fan:<\/p>\n

We don’t know a better way of becoming a finished saxophone player than prussic acid.<\/p>\n

Source:  Editorial Points, The Border Cities Star<\/em>, March 7, 1930<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nice… Not so much…<\/p>\n

For those of you, who like me, aren’t familiar with what prussic acid is, it is the historical common term for hydrogen cyanide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just how badly did the writer hate the Brown Brothers, and other saxophone acts of the 1920s? Just how badly did his neighbour play the saxophone? <\/p>\n

If the writer’s neighbour sent away for a sax based on the following ad from 1924, I could see why the writer might be driven to dream of hydrogen cyanide. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

\"vintage,<\/a><\/p>\n

     Source: ANTIQUE~GRAPHIQUE on eBay.com<\/h6>\n

Isn’t it good to know that we’re not a talented<\/em> bunch, who don’t have to go through the drudgery<\/em> of study<\/em>? Hell, why do we even need to practice at all? Let’s just put the damn thing to our lips and blow!  \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[perfectpullquote align=”right” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]We don’t know a better way of becoming a finished saxophone player than prussic acid.[\/perfectpullquote]<\/p>\n

Getting back to what was written in The Border Cities Star<\/em>, clearly this quote falls into the category of anti-sax backlash articles and comments that I mentioned this past March<\/a>. Saxophones, while wildly popular in the 1920s, were not universally loved.<\/p>\n

C’est la vie. We can’t always be the popular kids. But isn’t it nice to know that nearly 100 years later we’re still the most popular wind instrument going?<\/p>\n

Too bad all these sax haters are dead. They can’t even see that their little rants were in vain.  :rant:<\/p>\n

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