Sometime in the near future I will be creating a full online saxophone lessons site. Do you want to be a part of it? Send me your thoughts, your lesson desires etc. For now, check out Saxophone Lessons.

Since the very first horn Adolph Sax made, people were waiting for french made Selmer horns. The best all round horns available, even the modern horns have great tone and intonation with good fingering patterns and good projection. Coupled with a big bore mouth piece, my Super Action 80 Series II can actually play as loud as guitar, drums, bass and Keyboard on stage. The louder you go, the more the intonation suffers but still, impressive that I do not need amplification.

I started playing saxophone when I was 9 years old. Three girls in my class got to play the alto but I wanted to play sax so bad that I asked to play Tenor. The teacher agreed. Only problem was I couldn't carry the horn home, I was too small, so my parents bought me one for home so I could practice. As I progressed through the grades, I started some pretty crazy bands as I became more bored with classical music which I was actually playing bass clarinet on, not sax. My real experiments in sax began when I reached the west coast of Canada and discovered my roots are in funk and acid-jazz.

I really believe that saxophone is the very best solo instrument for expression, thought there are many others that do more, the sax can sound mad, sad, soulful, funky, hard rock hard bop, what sounds can you not make with a saxophone. I once said to a fellow sax player "I would love to have some effects on stage" and his response was "but you should be able to make all those sounds with your horn already". And I agree.

Selmer Saxophone Serial Number Chart. http://www.selmer.com/woodwind/parissx/historical.html

I use Selmer Super action 80 Series 2 Alto, and a Series 1 Tenor, Vandoran Java 3.5 reeds on both with Claude Leakey mouthpieces. Amazing if you can get used to them. Drop me a line and let me know what mouthpieces you use.

As I have time, I will be adding some lessons I think are useful for better learning the sax on this page. Stay tuned for me to write them.