I am a tenor player too. The advice above is all sound. A tenor sax of any kind is a compromise tuning wise, its a question of lipping notes into tune and that takes a trained lip or 'embrouchure' and a good ear. All this comes naturally with time.

I did not read through every post but did people mention that many of the modern student instruments play very well indeed, even the chinese ones from ebay etc. I have a King super 20 its a classic instrument and its a lot of trouble to maintain, the modern instruments have computerised engineering and that gives better relaibility. Old instruments can be tricky.

All it takes is one inadvertant knock on a pad and sometimes the whole instrument becomes tough or evn impossible to play, if pads are worn or damaged this too seriously handicaps the instrument, thats were a sax technician is so useful. If you can its worthwile getting it looked over by a tech. BTW a cheap mouthpiece can hinder too, esp the plastic ones.

Last edited by ZeroZero; 03/19/13 02:30 PM.
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