{"id":8613,"date":"2009-05-29T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:19:38","slug":"the-dorfler-jorka-is-deceptively-adaptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2009\/the-dorfler-jorka-is-deceptively-adaptable\/","title":{"rendered":"The D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka Is Deceptively Adaptable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eb<\/a>Now that I’ve had just over a month on this sax, on Wednesday night I decided to take my D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka<\/a> to rehearsal again to see what it could do up against the electric guitar sounds of Art Panchishin. Well, for a vintage, dark, 1950s German saxophone, this Keilwerth clone really was able to hold its own.<\/p>\n

The D&J has a richness in its bottom end that I haven’t found in any of my other tenors\u2014Mark VI, Martin Handcraft, or 10M\u2014although the Martin comes the closest. The sax has an overall fullness in tone that is able to project through the electronic “noise” of the electric guitar and bass. And although not particularly useful with this band, the D&J subtones down to low Bb easier than any of my other tenors. It’s literally effortless.<\/p>\n

Since I currently only play in 1 band, I play very little in the bottom octave of my horn. With Deception<\/em>, I play mostly in the 2nd octave and up into the altissimo, and regularly duel with the guitar in solos. I was curious whether or not I would be able to use the D&J as a back-up horn for Deception<\/em>, if for some reason my Selmer was not available. After this week’s rehearsal, I would say that the D&J would make a fine back-up horn.<\/p>\n

I will have to spend some more time on the D&J to get familiar with its idiosyncrasies, because it does have some. So far the largest hurdle that I’ve encountered is that my standard fingering for F#3, the one that I use on all my horns, plays 50 cents flat. I need to find a new fingering for that note on the D&J.<\/p>\n

The front E and F play perfectly in tune however, so that’s a good thing. I’ll do some experimenting in the next day or 2 and see what I can come up with to bring my F# up to pitch. The rest of the altissimo notes I use seem to be OK, but then I don’t use all of them in Deception<\/em>. I will have to check the full altissimo range to see if the D&J has different fingering preferences for other altissimo notes as well.<\/p>\n

\"Right<\/a><\/p>\n

Because I use a lot of effects when playing with Deception, <\/em>such as growl tone, flutter tongue, false fingerings, bends, slides, scoops, multi-phonics, and other distortion effects that come from my throat and embouchure, I prefer saxes that allow me to play these effects as effortlessly as possible. It seems to me that the ease of some of these effects is directly proportional to the amount of resistance in the horn. The less the resistance, the easier certain effects speak.<\/p>\n

Of all my tenors, the Conn is the easiest to tease effects from, the Martin is next, and the Selmer is the hardest. This D&J is comparable to the Selmer, in that the amount of resistance from the horn is about the same as the Selmer.<\/p>\n

The D&J really surprised me on Wednesday night. I did not think that this dark sounding horn (compared to my other saxes) would be able cut through well enough, to be useful in an electric blues environment. I did put my brightest Dukoff, an S7, on the horn, and that helped a lot. Anything less, and I don’t think the results would have been the same.<\/p>\n

I am currently working on an article about D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka saxophones. I am trying to compile as much info as I can from around the ‘Net, and hope to have it published in the next month. If you have any info you’d like to share about the D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka saxophone company, please get in touch with me<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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