{"id":35946,"date":"2013-02-03T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=35946"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:32:59","slug":"a-saxophone-players-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2013\/a-saxophone-players-look\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saxophone Player’s Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where do you look when you play? Seriously, I’ve always wanted to ask other saxophone players this question.<\/p>\n

Since I have spent the better part of a musical career playing in bands where I don’t use sheet music, it’s not like I have music to read. If I’m not playing, I tend to mostly look out into the audience and engage with them in some way. I intersperse that with interacting with my bandmates.<\/p>\n

If I am playing however, I do one of 2 things: If I am soloing, I more often than not play with my eyes closed. If I’m not soloing, my eyes are open, and I tend to look at my horn.<\/p>\n

After hundreds of hours of staring at my saxophones, I am intimately familiar with certain parts of my horns. The parts I mostly stare at are the octave key, octave mechanism, and the neck.<\/p>\n

I have tried to capture this view in photos, but to no avail. I’ve even had my partner stand behind me and try to photograph what I see, but that didn’t work either.<\/p>\n

Then this morning I saw this photo posted on Flickr from Allfred. He managed to do a pretty good job of capturing the view a bari player has of their horn.<\/p>\n

Play the music, not the instrument.~Author Unknown<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Photography by: allfr3d<\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Depending on the bari player’s height, and angle he\/she holds their horn at, this could easily be the view they have of upper bow, pig tail, neck, and octave key. BTW, I don’t know what brand of sax this is, but I can tell you it isn’t one I own. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I think it’s difficult to come up with interesting ways to photograph a saxophone, or with interesting bits<\/em> of a saxophone to shoot. However, Allfred has managed to capture a great photo here precisely because it is from such an interesting perspective.<\/p>\n

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