{"id":38259,"date":"2013-07-21T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=38259"},"modified":"2024-06-08T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:45:09","slug":"bari-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2013\/bari-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bits And Pieces Of A Baritone Saxophone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just what are all the bits and pieces of a baritone called? That’s the question that confronted the owner of a small music shop earlier this week. Although a musician, he isn’t a sax player, and knows jack about saxophones. However, he ended up with a Selmer Mark VI bari in his shop that he plans to sell.<\/p>\n

Despite scouring the Internet for images of baris, to familiarize himself with what the various bits and pieces of a baritone saxophone are called, he came up with nothing. Apparently no one has uploaded an image of a bari with all its pieces labelled. The other day I received an email from the man, let’s call him Jack (not his real name), in which he asked me what the various bari bits are.<\/p>\n

Because Jack is not the first person to contact me with such a request, I decided to create…<\/p>\n

The bits and pieces of a baritone saxophone: A visual reference<\/h2>\n

This visual reference chart is for anyone selling a bari, but not necessarily familiar with the basic terms used to describe the pieces that make up the horn. Now I realize I could have gone crazy and labelled all kinds of other parts as well. So I’m tossing this out to you, the experienced players who read my website:<\/p>\n