Forum of the Saxes

JPSaxMan · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject: What's in your sax case?

We all keep extra things in our case besides our sax & neck (boy you guys better carry those things!). What do you keep in yours? Here's mine; in my tenor case I keep;

NeoTech SaxPack which holds my neck, S80 C* & Rovner, two tubes of cork grease and a LaVoz reed holder

Hankie Swab

Woodwind Polishing Cloth

Selmer Paris Cloth

Box of Vandoren's (right now there's one reed left in the box Sad

...gonna get a new box of Vandoren ZZ 3's :D )

BG France Large Sax Neck Strap

Selmer Paris Cap & Lig that came with S80 (just in case)

That's it for the tenor. I usually carry altissimo charts in the large pocket on top of the case and if it's going in school I put the back-pack straps in the smaller pocket on top (keep in mind I have a Selmer Trek-Lite case Shocked

). When I get my Dukoff I probably will get another mouthpiece pouch for it.

For the alto I keep;

Box of Vandoren ZZ 3's

Some placemat to use for 'polishing'

Mouthpiece, Rovner lig, and cap

Selmer Paris swab (came with the LaVoix, better suited for the alto)

Selmer neckstrap (came with the LaVoix, better suited for alto Rolling Eyes

)

That's it for alto. Don't have a Pad Guard or anything of the sort...pads are almost shot anyway on my Armstrong.

And for bari I keep;

Neotech Sax Harness (a bari player's best friend :D )

Box of Vandoren ZZ 3's (almost )

Lig and cap

Yamaha Polishing Cloth

Spare Rico's

That's all of it. Phew Shocked

. I'm interested to hear bout the rest of ya's!

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:19 pm Post subject:

Alto: LaVoz reed holder with Rico #3 and3.5 and #5 reeds, a Selmer S90 piece with a stock metal lig, a Rovner-like lig I borrowed from my private lesson teacher, and a mp cap. A tube of cork grease, a screwdriver set, key oil, a mouthpiece brush, a cloth sax swab, a neck-cleaner, a tuner, a neckstrap, and sometimes a metronome.

C Melody: 3 tenor pieces I borrowed from my school, one King, one Selmer Goldentone, one nameless; two stock metal ligs, cork grease, penetrating oil, key oil, a mini-screwdriver set, sheet cork, some rope? I don't know why I have it in there, a piece of leather, I don't know why I have that in there too, a spare saxophone neck screw, contact cement, toothpicks, Q-Tips, a gluestick, and a sock for storing my sax's neck.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject:

Holy cow

Get a Neotech Sax Pack...protects the neck better than the sock and stores your mouthpiece and other valuables. And get a TriPac while your at it to minimize clutter which is what you seem to have Shocked

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

It's not really very cluttered. I have it organized....kinda. Laughing

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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

Thomas · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 223 Location: Alberta, Canada

Excellent topic choice, JP!

This is what I usually keep in my case:

Sax & Neck (haha, duh...)
Selmer S90 180 mouthpiece (for classical)
Vandoren V16 A4 mouthpiece (for jazz)
Rovner ligature + mp cap (I use this for classical and jazz)
Plastic tooth cover (I spent about an hour cutting up a football mouthpiece to make it)
Pill vial (for reed soaking water)
Pill vial (for holding tooth cover)
10-pack Vandoren blue box reeds (strength - 3.5)
10-pack Vandoren V16 reeds (strength - 3)
Reedgard 4-pack reed holder
Cork grease
All-in-one metronome/tuner/guitar tuner/ref. pitch generator (brand is "Solutions", I believe)
Body swab
Neck/mouthpiece swab
finish cloth
screwdriver set
brush (for cleaning the small spaces)

I think that's it. I'll check my sax case later today (I'm writing this at like 12:30 am) and tell you if I missed anything.
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Thomas Hay
Sax player, music student, composer, Finale user, and part-time slacker/procrastinator.

CMelodyMan · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:46 am Post subject:

Do you think your homemade tooth cover works better than a store-bought mouthpiece patch?
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

Actually Thomas I started the topic Confused

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

Alto Case:

Neck Bag (the standard case holder gave my neck a nice dent)
Alexandar D.C. #3 reeds
Vandoren Java #2.5 reeds
Neotech neckstrap
Ponzol #3 tenor reeds
Blue Juice Valve Oil (all my instruments stuff ends up in my alto case
Confused

)
Random unlabeled cork grease
Screwdriver set
Otto Link 5 tone edge mouthpiece
Selmer C* mouthpiece

Tenor Case:

Ponzol #3 reeds
Cheapo neckstrap
sax stand
music stand
Yamaha mouthpiece
rovner dark ligature

My cases are both very messy...I should really organize all my cases out.

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject:

Get Neotech; TriPac and SaxPac go a long way! Cool

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

MySaxMax · Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 22

what's a sock or whatever that you keep your neck in? I don't think I have one of those... I kinda tossed aside a lot of things that came with my sax when I first got it... what the are essential things to have for your sax? all I have in my case are:

my sax

my neck

five reeds

a double sided reed case and one plastic reed case

a mouthpiece and ligature

mouthpiece spit swabber

cork grease

and neckstrap

MySaxMax · Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 22

JazZz, how do you keep your sax stand and music stand in your case? That seems like a lot, wow.

CMelodyMan · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:45 am Post subject:

I just use a regular sock(a long sock.) I use it to protcet the neck from being scratched.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

Seriously, get a Neotech SaxPac...it will do a lot more good for your neck than a sock!

I think my list (not to sound arrogant or anything) is the ideal sax case (the tenor one I mean). Everything you need just about (I need to get one of those emergency kits) to get you through the days.

Definetely get a swab. When you don't swab your horn you're just letting all of your fluid to pool up at the bow and over time, guess what? That could erode like crazy Evil or Very Mad

. Although my director never swabed his Super Action 80 ( Shocked

) it still plays pretty good for a horn that's 20+ years old. But don't let that example sway you! If you want your horn to last, swab it! Then a Pad Guard would be essential. The LaVoz brand I use is quite all right for my horn but some don't like LaVoz so get another brand (crap, can't think of any of them). Pads will last you a lot longer with one.

I think that's about it. Exclamation

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania