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16 Feb 18 - 03:40 PM (#3906205) Subject: Alto Sax From: GUEST,Captain Farrell Any one played Alto Sax in folk clubs |
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16 Feb 18 - 04:44 PM (#3906218) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: Sue Allan Played in ceilidh band, but never dared do it in a session (don’t go to any folk clubs) |
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16 Feb 18 - 05:41 PM (#3906231) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: Andy7 An ex-partner of mine was a sax player, we used to play sax and fiddle duets. But she'd never fetch it along to the folk club. I still believe a sax would go down well at a folk club, though ... as long as it didn't try to 'accompany' a quiet singer! |
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17 Feb 18 - 03:24 PM (#3906345) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: GUEST,captain farrell Im sure sax would work because they can be fairly quiet if used wisely |
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18 Feb 18 - 05:09 AM (#3906413) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: Jack Campin I use either a C melody tenor or a tárogató (wooden B flat soprano) for klezmer and occasionally elsewhere. A good sax can play very softly, but it takes practice to do it. Alto is tricky because E flat doesn't usually fit with anybody else. |
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18 Feb 18 - 07:54 AM (#3906445) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: GUEST,Richard Robinson "E flat doesn't usually fit with anybody else". If it wasn't for those pesky strings ... there are saxes, brass, Bb clarinets, GHB (and fiddles, of course). A very loud flat-key session, play everything up a semitone ? It'd probably take a big festival to get enough instruments together. |
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18 Feb 18 - 08:45 AM (#3906460) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: Jack Campin There is a flat keys session (mainly E flat) at Whitby Folk Week. |
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18 Feb 18 - 11:55 AM (#3906500) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: Tunesmith I recall trying out a Low D whistle in the Manchester Hobgoblin shop, when somebody from the back of the shop let fly on an alto sax. It was played with such a spectacular tone and volume that I immediately lost interest the whistle. |
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18 Feb 18 - 04:53 PM (#3906554) Subject: RE: Alto Sax From: keberoxu The thing about saxophones isn't volume. It's a special quality in the sound; I don't know if "timbre" is the word for it. From my university days in the practice rooms in the music building, I have a vivid memory of the sound of a saxophone, being played softly -- and that sound cut through the walls of whatever the practice rooms were built of, like the proverbial hot knife through butter. Without even being loud. |