More on Caring for a Baritone Saxophone

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For Expert Village, I'm EJ John Erickson and we're finishing up some details with the baritone saxophone. Hope you've been having fun through these sessions. I have for sure. And now, you've played, you've done your gig, it's time to put it away. Let's talk about some basic maintenance, and taking care of, and talk about some of the tools of the trade. So, another thing, obviously we've talked about the Powder Paper for emergency situations with sticky keys, always a good thing to have. I like to have a tuner as well. They make special ones for horns where you can actually take and get, clip on to the bell and it actually measures it by the vibration of the horn. That's the best way to do it. But, even an old guitar tuner is good to have. Always want to tune before you do a gig. Another handy thing is a flashlight. I use this one here. And also, this is a special light if you're on stage and it's hard to see you can actually look and find, I have my little gig box here and you can see it's a little flight case, road case. I bring that on stage with me every time. The cutest little road case you ever did see. A couple of things. A couple of brushes are used for getting into the tough situations here or the larger ones here. And you'll want to get a couple of brushes, different sizes. Also, they make swab, kind of like this one for the tenor and alto. If you're going to use one like this, go ahead and swab it through a few times, but leave it out of the horn. Don't leave it in the horn because it, actually, the condensation will just stay on the rag and get your pads to wear down. For your dark gigs, just another little road tip, it's nice to have a little stand light that goes like this and you can read your music in a dark situation. Also, part of the tools, have a flathead screwdriver, a little tiny one. This for all of the rods, like this guy here on the side. Sometimes you need to go through and keep those tight and just check them. I'm screwing it there, I can screw it back in, make sure it's good and tight. So these are critical. I usually have a few of these on stage. Also have a pair of needle nose pliers. This for getting into tight situations, like this has a spring down here. Sometimes I need to go in and twerk that spring, making sure the spring isn't...this is the only way to do it, with needle nose pliers. And then, hey, there's my supply of screwdrivers I was telling you about. And just your basic, you know, Leatherman type tools for any other catastrophic, I've actually bent my bell back with this before. And, cork, I'm sorry, this is pad cement. So if the pad actually falls off the key, you can use this to glue it back on and reset it. I just recommend having a professional take care of that for you, because it's actually pretty hard to seat those. And I use a wireless microphone on stage. You can use others, but that's helped me to walk out in the crowd. So array of tools...Oh, Listerine, that's always good to do before a gig. It keeps the inside of your horn nice and clean and your mouth minty fresh. There you go, that's the array of tools. I hope you have fun. Good talking with you.

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