Forum of the Saxes

saxmaniac · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 184

What are some good saxes for marching band?

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject:

Ones that you can beat up...maybe? Rolling Eyes

For alto I either used mine (Armstrong) or a YAS-23

For bari the past two years I've used a Bundy Selmer...now I'll either be using a Selmer 156A or a Yamaha YBS-52...but the Yamaha is new and I'm not too fond of taking it out to the elements.
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CMelodyMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

Use a sax that's cheap, and will be replacable if gets too beat-up, without any sadness(meaning don't use a Borgani in marching band because if that gets messed-up then you've lost a $5000 sax, wheareas Bundies only cost about a $100 on eBay, so you wouldn't be crying your eyes out if you broke it.
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tenorsaxman · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Indiana

Personally I would use my Yamaha YAS23 alto. If I used my tenor and it got screwed,actually I could use either because I nevr use the alto and I have a 5 year warranty on the keys of my tenor.All I have to do is protect them from bad weather. But if you have a YAS23 just use it. Good luck
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oboe
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Jazzamataz · Guest

I used an old 'King' saxophone for marching band. They where very sturdy (I used 2). The first one I used was dropped off of the top of like 20 foot bleachers and i picked it up, banged in a key that fell out of alignment (Either low C or Eb) and continued playing and it was great. The second one was after my first one was sent to a jazz band kid and it played just as good. They did tarnish kind of funny and had a very weird colour of 'rust'

JPSaxMan · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: