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Tips for Choosing Reeds for a Tenor Saxophone

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Summary: Loosen up a reed for your tenor saxophone so your sax will play better; learn how with tips from our expert tenor sax player in this free sax video music lesson.

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Dave Birkin Dave Birkin has been a sought after saxophonist in the New England area for over thirty years. He presently performs regularly with the Calypso Hurricane, a ... read more

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by aljoda

thanks dave for all your help, and merry christmas to you and everyone at expert village best wishes alan england

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Tips for Choosing Reeds for a Tenor Saxophone

Hi! This is Dave Birkin and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to continue talking about saxophone reeds with you. I decided that both of these sides of this reed need to be worked with. So what I am going to do is, just kind of, maybe just do some blowing on it, just to loosen it up a little bit, you know, and what you do is, it is sort of, just on the side, you know, just between… in here basically and that side and on the other side, you put your finger behind the reed to give it support, right where you are going to be cutting, of course if you are, if you do not careful, you can split the reed and then not be able to use it. So I am just kind of going to whittle away a little bit of this wood, and then I am going to try it out and see what happened, lets see, we take a little bit more of that side. I have my finger going in under here, and just like that, and let us see what is happening with it.

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