Adam and Rich are instrument technicians at David French Music Company in Westborough Massachusetts. In these videos, they will teach you tips and tricks for your instruments that can help keep them in great shape in between services, or show you the little fixes that may be causing you problems.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ive been on RU-vid for 3hours trying to fix my embouchure and find the sweet spot to bite, ive been tilting my head up, blowing way too hard because some videos were saying that I wasn't using enough airr!!.... my lip is starting to hurt!!!! you should see the smile on my face now.
I may be the exception to the rule. I brush my teeth before playing, and restrict myself to water when I play these days. When I was younger, you would be right.
My default is to place the cork opposite of how he's done it here unless the player is left-handed. I try to make it so that placing the mouthpiece on the instrument flattens the seam rather than accidentally lifting it.
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I bought a saxophone about a year ago and it always played high no matter what so I didn’t play much. I thought it was my embouchure until I looked up this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I work all day and recently started playing saxophone. After work I come back and practice. I kept having issues, thinking it was my reed, mouth placement, tonguing, literally everything. After I noticed the octive key not going down all the way. Thanks a ton . This is a new instrument and was devastated when I thought I'd have to already take it into the shop Thanks a bunch !!!
It isn’t working for me. My space amount isn’t the problem it is that my pad part of the mechanism doesn’t fully touch down to close the hole and is completely skewed. I have no idea how to fix this.
Thanks so much. I have a concert in a couple days and I have a jazz solo to play and everything was good but I kept squeaking because of the octave key. Once I did your thing, it was perfectly fine
Just two things I would add to this... Wrap the cork on a slight angle to the neck to avoid that offset finish towards the octave port. It wouldn't hurt to apply some protective tape on the laquered portion of the neck to avoid an unwanted accident.