{"id":932,"date":"2008-08-25T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2009-08-10T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T17:53:28","slug":"my-saxy-roomates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/my-saxy-roomates\/","title":{"rendered":"My Saxy Roomates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning feeling very rested, after a very long drive to Seattle yesterday. The border lineup was crazy! It took me 90 minutes in line at Sumas, to talk to a US Customs\u00a0Officer for 90 seconds. Wow!<\/p>\n

Anyways…Then it was off for a nearly 3 hour drive to Seattle. Two things worked against me: the torential rain which came down virtually the entire trip\u00a0& the traffic, generated by the\u00a0outlet stores, that plugged up the Interstate for miles before and after the exits.<\/p>\n

However I persevered, and just before 7pm I arrived at Jim & Suzy’s house. I was promptly greeted by Jim, Suzy, and their 2 dogs…The older of which started barking at me\u00a0immediatly (she is not fond of strangers apparently). \u00a0<\/p>\n

Jim and I spent the pm talking sax & I got to see his lovely collection of horns. I honked around on some of his babies. I did try the low A Eppie. Beautiful horn. It will be nice to play it for real a bit this week. I also did try the soprillo. I did manage a C3 on it, which given that I tried it for about 30 seconds, was not too bad. I would like to play it up against a tuner later this week just for fun, to see how bad my tuning is! From what I heard, I think I was at least 30 cents sharp on most notes & a good 50 on the B3 and C3. (Although for all I know, I could have been out an entire semi-tone or tone for that matter, since I have no reference points for that horn.)<\/p>\n

When Jim showed me to\u00a0the suite downstairs that will be my home for the next week, I was surprised to see his 1921 Buescher bass sitting at the foot of my bed. He put it there for me so I could play it anytime I wanted. He also brought in the Herb Couf Superba I that I will be using\u00a0Sunday at the Dissonance<\/em> show at the Ballard Locks.<\/p>\n

This AM while he went to work, I took a couple photos of my roommates. They were very quiet overnight. I think this afternoon and this pm they will be louder though. We have the rehearsal for Dissonance<\/em> at 7:00.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buescher True Tone\u00a0bass & H. Couf\u00a0Superba I tenor belonging to Jim Glass.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Down the bell of the Buescher bass.<\/h6>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bell\/body brace on the Couf tenor.<\/h6>\n
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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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