At the age of 19 Friso had already developed a love affair for the saxophone, helping out weekends in a saxophone repair shop. In his twenties he was sidetracked by a career in science, working on a PhD in neurobiology. But after a while he couldn’t silence his passion for the sax.
Amsterdam Winds was born in 2002. At first selling and repairing a broad range of wind instruments, Amsterdam Winds quickly built a name for itself as a workshop for sax aficionados. Friso became an internationally acclaimed saxophone repairman. In 2009 a new adventure began when he started research on the construction of his own saxophone. This resulted in the Free Wind alto saxophone played by Candy Dulfer and Will Vinson.
Although Amsterdam Winds is no longer a regular saxophone shop, Friso now focuses primarily on making saxophone necks.
Aside from making necks, Friso is working on a new tenor saxophone that he is completely building by himself including the tools and machinery needed for production.
"the assumption that current SLR would be less than in the paleo records" Paleo indicates 6-9 metres of LSR occurred over 300 to 700 years, with a slower rate of warming that ended up 0.5 degrees warmer than now. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KTTlAAiwgwM.html at 17:27 to 19:00 "We find rates of 1 to 2.5 metres / century" on the screen and James Hansen is sitting next to his associate Eelco Rohling shows the plots and statements such as " 1 to 2.5 m / century". Also long-term multiple paleo analyses being "filled in" at 14:25 to 17:27 In the long term next few thousand years as Antarctica responds numerous paleo-climate proxy analyses for the last 40,000,000 years show such as a +25m SLR with the GHGs that were in the atmosphere in 2011. This is what Jim Hansen refers to as he says Antarctica will be responding to what humans have done for a few thousand years. Jim's right about that.
Don't quite see the relation to saxophone necks..😉... But, my workshop is located on the waterfront, quite vulnerable to sea level rise indeed.... And if I'm not mistaking, isn't Hansen currently working on a new paper 'sea level rise in the pipeline'? Projections have gotten worse since 2011 and GHG have only been rising....😟
Definitely some more bass frequencies in there. I’d like to hear him play at lower volumes as well to see how the new neck handles at all volumes and articulations.
Can I assume that this is the new iteration of the discontinued Amsterdam Winds alto? I knew that there was a new tenor, but did not realize there was an alto in the works. The website says that Friso was focusing on necks only. Thanks!
