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[William Cingolani]

Thanks Paddy. What I was looking for is a muffler like what trumpets use to tone down the sound of the sax. I’m blowing every body out of the house

[Tim56]

William: Mutes are made. They work except for down low. Look up nation of music. Steve Goodson sells them. I have one. Don’t use it too much. You know, tell the peeps when your going to practice and they can get ear muffs. My wife knows. I have my room and I play. Salm 33.3 is play load and strong. A tenor in not a faint instrument!!! Listen to Johnny play Europa. I can do that sound range. It’s as good as I can do. So, have at it. Tim

[Anonymous]

If i practice when my daughters in the house or my wife is in the house, i only practice for an hour max – which they can tolerate.

My daughter puts on headphones, and my wife just puts up with it, but she would complain if i played for hours and hours.

Here in the UK, on average houses generally are smaller, and have smaller rooms – think walt disney world hotel bedrooms. So for that reason i don’t play on a guardalla mouthpiece at all in the house.

If i went round to my teacher, with the guardella mouth, he would ask me to play softer – which defeats the object, so hardly ever use it – sorry folks.

I am tempted to get a roland ae10, which would be useful for finger muscle memory practice, but wouldn’t be the same as a real mouthpiece – as you can put headphones phone and no one can hear.

The only thing is my teacher and i both cant understandand why they cant make an electronic sax look and feel like a sax – i mean, if you are going to use sax finger positions, its a sax, not a recorder.

[William Cingolani]

Tim and sxpoet,
I saw the sax mutes. I’ll just learn to blow softly.

[Tim56]

William: Try this, soft foam. There are many firmness grades. I have 2 I made. Put a 1 inch hole in it. It works. When I was in an orchestra, the director told me about doing the mute. It works. Put in in the bell by 2 inches below the lip. Tim

[Anonymous]

back in the nineties a friend of mine won a tvr car similar to these
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVR_S_Series

he could never get out of second gear – so in the end he sold it as it was to fast for where he lived.

Have fun playing softly!

[Tim56]

saxpoet: I saw that episode. Hey I got 360 HP in my 1948 Woodie wagon. I don’t do drag stuff with it. It does go however! The foam will work guys! Give it a try. Even Johnny will tell you that playing softly on the Tenor takes more air and you gotta work on it. Tim

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