It’s like a manual car, but it’s a manual saxophone! That’s crazy that you have to adapt to learn how to use 2 octave keys because one of them isn’t automatic anymore.
@@alejandrogutierrez1297 professional ones do. Most have 2 (thumb octave key for D to G# and a left hand key on the front that you lean on when going from A to E)
@@Klara_S. when I was a beginner I thought the same. Now I am incredibly thankful that I have 3 separate octave keys. It makes the high register so much easier and in tune, and I have plenty of contemporary music possibilities with stuff like harmonics.
Adolphe Sax: I have an idea for a novel instrument. My concept is that the sound will be consistently amazing, but absolutely no two builders will agree how it should be made. I'm taking all suggestions, of course.
I play both Bari and bass for college and I love it. One of the horns I used to play was a bass clarinet from 1928 and it had no low Eb key. Sounded wicked.
I have a 1917 GH White king model ( before King was a brand , curved soprano it’s Mede of silver and has no gooseneck but has a one key octave system amazing the innovation in 12 years
UHHHHHH Please tell me yoh have a video of you playing it? That's so cool to have, I'm glad the youtube gods blessed me with it. I live in Orlando and used to go to Disney a lot to listen to the band at the Grand Floridian while they still played. They had a GORGEOUS (my best guess is 1930s) era bass sax.
yes i agree. the way I personally like to look at it is what the button does to the note. When you press the key in question while playing an A, it does nothing at all. When you press it while playing G, it makes it go up by a half step, therefore making it a G# key. Same idea applies to the notes that the other commenter, kevin listed.
@@TheMusicMan49 As an oboist, I can say that the manual octaves aren't really a big deal for the Ferlings. Once you've been using that system for a long enough time, it honestly just becomes second nature to you (Oboes have manual double octaves, plus use a half hole for middle C#/D/Eb [effectively giving us manual triple octaves], so... yeah, Saxophones have it easy for Ferling studies)
@@AndrewHadro im looking at both my instruments and only one key goes and octave higher and only one hole opens and that's the neck. I think that might just be the bari sax
@@gemmasangiorgio3402 no sir, all modern horns have it. It might be under some other keywork, but it opens between middle D and G. The other one opens after G
There's still two octave vents (one on the body and one on the neck). They just didn't originally have the complicated system that automatically switched between the two of hence two octave keys originally.
It’s like a manual car, but it’s a manual saxophone! That’s crazy that you have to adapt to learn how to use 2 octave keys because one of them isn’t automatic anymore.
Every oboe player has 2 or 3 octave keys
Why can't they be linked like on sax? I don't know. It's annoying.
@@Klara_S. never knew that oboe’s had 3 octave keys! That’s insane!
@@alejandrogutierrez1297 professional ones do. Most have 2 (thumb octave key for D to G# and a left hand key on the front that you lean on when going from A to E)
@@Klara_S. when I was a beginner I thought the same. Now I am incredibly thankful that I have 3 separate octave keys. It makes the high register so much easier and in tune, and I have plenty of contemporary music possibilities with stuff like harmonics.
If you count the whisper key, half holing, and all the vent/flick keys, the bassoon has about 5 octave keys.
Adolphe Sax:
I have an idea for a novel instrument. My concept is that the sound will be consistently amazing, but absolutely no two builders will agree how it should be made.
I'm taking all suggestions, of course.
Today's a good day to be a bass clarinetist and not a whatever-that-is-ist
Bari sax
@@Roboticwhale19 Thanks 😉
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Fr bass clarinet is a W
I play both Bari and bass for college and I love it. One of the horns I used to play was a bass clarinet from 1928 and it had no low Eb key. Sounded wicked.
Bari sax master race
Ab….I believe you mean G#…….
Disclaimer: I know they’re the same but it just hurts a lil bit as a saxophonist 😅
This bothered the crap out of me too
I have a 1917 GH White king model ( before King was a brand , curved soprano it’s Mede of silver and has no gooseneck but has a one key octave system amazing the innovation in 12 years
I searched tenor sax and it gave me this video first
UHHHHHH Please tell me yoh have a video of you playing it? That's so cool to have, I'm glad the youtube gods blessed me with it. I live in Orlando and used to go to Disney a lot to listen to the band at the Grand Floridian while they still played. They had a GORGEOUS (my best guess is 1930s) era bass sax.
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Very cool, I like seeing different setups
He did not just call it Ab that hurts as a saxophonist. Ik they’re the same but after playing alto for 6 years it ms just not the same.
EXACTLY!! IT’S G SHARP MAN!!!!
And D#
And F#
And C#
yes i agree. the way I personally like to look at it is what the button does to the note. When you press the key in question while playing an A, it does nothing at all. When you press it while playing G, it makes it go up by a half step, therefore making it a G# key. Same idea applies to the notes that the other commenter, kevin listed.
YES SIR. This guy must have started on flute or clarinet.
he also said all saxophones have two octave keys
@@NioFromXboxI'm clarinet/tenor sax and hate thinking of it as Ab ITS G SHARP
Love that 🎷
Speaking about the " no pearls " - I also have a 1917 Harwood / Buescher Alto that has the same feature . . . .
I really like the unique features of your octaves ;)
I have my OLD York Bari in the shop , getting an overhaul . . . . ;) Silver W/ Gold bell ;-))
awesome horn dude!
2 octave keys would be painful in some classical pieces
Imagine like half of the ferling etudes
Ew
@@TheMusicMan49 As an oboist, I can say that the manual octaves aren't really a big deal for the Ferlings. Once you've been using that system for a long enough time, it honestly just becomes second nature to you
(Oboes have manual double octaves, plus use a half hole for middle C#/D/Eb [effectively giving us manual triple octaves], so... yeah, Saxophones have it easy for Ferling studies)
A hate the octave key system because it doesnt give the neck any turning room or it will not be correct
I have a same like Baritone 😊
that's freakin cool I love old instruments
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I have a baritone sax just like this.
im getting tetnis just from looking at that
out of most baris i have seen not having pearls is interesting
My school has a tuba from the 1920s
And i thought my conn bari was bad ergonomically 😂
Im sorry but what I own an alto and tenor and they only have ONE register key. Yet he said everyone of them have two... am I missing something Here.
Technically modern horns have one octave key, but two octave holes. One on the neck and another on the body towards the top
@@AndrewHadro im looking at both my instruments and only one key goes and octave higher and only one hole opens and that's the neck. I think that might just be the bari sax
@@gemmasangiorgio3402 no sir, all modern horns have it. It might be under some other keywork, but it opens between middle D and G. The other one opens after G
@@gemmasangiorgio3402 here this kind of shows it
www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/02/27/octave-holes-on-a-saxophone/
Where do you buy vintage saxophones?
eBay is good.. I got a 1950s Prof Orsi bari for $300 on Craigslist. Needs a repad, but for the price? Not bad at all.
@@nickbarrow2805 that's wild!
I liked the part where he played it
Can u play it
That octave key looks sort off like the bassons octave key
Since when were there TWO octave keys?
There's still two octave vents (one on the body and one on the neck). They just didn't originally have the complicated system that automatically switched between the two of hence two octave keys originally.
Is it bad I’m mad he said Ab instead of G#?
Weirdest thing was you calling it the Ab key….
How does it sound??
Better not inhale in that
it looks so wrong...i dont think i could get used to that. especially the G# key
That bari sax is 116
Vsauce?
Why are saxs considered horns? They’re woodwinds
Maybe they should be called brasswinds.
Their are not 2 octave keys on all saxophones-
www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/02/27/octave-holes-on-a-saxophone/
I like the part where he plays it...
literally already posted a short of him playing it weeks ago
Imagine starting on a manual one then getting a automatic trying to find the over octave key then calling it a cheap horrible sax doesn’t even work
Bro you need to clean that
Bro that's from 1905 lol
That’s an overtone excuse
Too bad trumpets don't have an octave key, it would save them like 10 years of work that sax players get with a button. Weakling saxes.