Great video, I love my C melody sax. But I play mostly Alto and do have a 1956 Tenor. My C Melody is from 1918 and I had it completely overhauled a year ago. Plays great.
I have a 1921 Beuscher C Melody with the original wooden mouthpiece. The left hand palm keys (high D etc...) are really difficult to play...they are stuffy, difficult to get air moving and impossible to play loud. I'm thinking of getting a new tenor mouthpiece with a bigger tip opening to maybe solve this problem. What's your opinion? What tip opening should I try?
I use a bass clarinet reed in original period C-Melody mouthpieces. It's slightly too long but that's at the stock end so it can be left hanging out past the ligature where it won't bother anything.
@@j-ylsax7551 when your choices are Tenor or Alto, the fitment of a Bass Clarinet is better than both of those choices. I, however, use the Harry Hartmann Tenor Black Onyx reed. (I use the Black onyx on all my saxes)
I play clarinet and go one of these. I had the 1918 sax overhauled. But, how do you do the fingerings. Cause my 2 sax friends and teacher have no ideas. Plus, what reeds do you use? Cause I use a alto reed.
Your fingering from your Clarinet would be almost identical......Flute, Clarinet and Sax all have the same fingering. The C-Mel is a step down though, but if you read music, just play the notes on the page and don't worry about the step down part.
