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I closed my eyes before you started the Trevor James horn comparisons. I thought they got slightly darker as you went through them. To be honest, having heard you playing on other videos, I thought these needed a different mouthpiece or reed - some sort of setup change - to improve what they sounded like. They seemed "murkier" than the 4 Yanis you played at the beginning.
I should have done the closed eyes thing when you did the first 4 horns. Maybe when you do another video, you can do "Test 1", "Test 2" with audio only, THEN show the horns afterwards. There's always a preconception when you see the horn before hearing it.
Metal/finish/stones/neck screws are ALL ways to guarantee disagreements between horn players, retailers and manufacturers :-)
I've always thought (but can't prove) that if there was an actual physically measurable change to the output, some manufacturer would be touting it as part of their marketing effort. "Our scientific research shows...", etc. Instead, it's more a "our instrument designers have worked to create what we feel is the most playable/awesome sounding/ horn on the market", which makes the designer more artist/alchemist than engineer. And maybe that's what it actually is...
I think where material is most noticeable in the middle D, E range. Solid silver and silver plate imo make it much easier to get an edgier tone. A blind fold test is pointless, because the player would adjust or not even know how to produce edge.
The unlacquered simply has not acquired it's patina yet.
Liked the video; have missed your posts, as you have been so busy with other things. You make them all sound good! My dealer was a pro in America, and I once took my crappiest Buffet Alto made in Taiwan, $500 new to dealer->he made it sound like a pro horn! I think most of this is the plated, but we do have these preferences. My OREGON teacher only played on old Conn’s in silver! He sold platinum albums and could afford anything...old tarnished silver Conn’s were his thing!?? 🚀
To my ears with the Yanis, the silver plated sounded a bit brighter and the solid silver was a bit warmer but thinner sounding in the higher notes, which I have noticed with solid silver saxophones, they have a rich lower end but the high notes tend to sound a bit thinner., but other than that the unlacquered and bronze had less of a difference. I did notice a difference with the Trevor James though. The black one sounded a bit more centered than the first one, and the silver looking one sounded slightly warmer sounding. I never thought of the Trevor James Horn Classic II as intermediate, more a student model and the SR Evo was their intermediate saxophone.
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Where u been I missed you, I love the Trevor James saxes I have a tenor and an alto in frosted black, great video, nice to see you x
Of the Trevor James, I thought the last one seemed to have more clarity, but it so much depends on the player. I would need to listen to much longer and varied examples all over the horn; long low notes and high and altissimo. But thanks, great video.
I honestly can't hear any difference*. But I notice you have the sax resting in your lap, and I wonder if that wouldn't have more effect on the way it resonates than the finish does?
* there again, I'm not actually listening to a sax - I'm listening to two tiny plastic discs vibrating in accordance with a compressed audio file, so the nuance is going to be lost anyway.
Different finishes influence a different colouration of the sound. Last three altos sounded differently. Basic gold model was slowest to intonate and delivered a sound with initial peak at the beginning of each note, then it lowered it slowly (was lagging) and was flat throughout with occasional dip, and with slow diminishing (sinking) in the end. It sounded like a cheap sax usually sounds. Black model responded faster, reached intonation faster, kept it better, and the note diminished quicker with a flatter curve; definitely better sound; overall quality is more silkiness and brightness. That finish tames the vibrations of the horn. The pearlescent model is in between two; intonation is similar to the black model, tone is consistent but slightly longer diminishing; perhaps due to the resonance of (extra) thickness of the pearlescent coating, which on that sax has an effect of a layer of sprinkled sugar on top of crepe (black model); sugar adds grain. Overall quality of tone is like scuffed silkiness of the black model, with added uniform grain across frequencies. It is lovely sound, though. I would go for the black model because it controls vibrations better.
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If the difference mostly comes dow to the player, is there really a difference then? I love silver plated but that's really because I like the look of it. I'd be interested if lacquered vs. non lacquered makes a tangible difference though.
Not the best speakers on my end, but I thought the black one had a more mellow tone.
To my ear the pro alto's sound about the same with the first horn to be somewhat fuller and darker.
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