Comments on: A new name, C Sax.net

By: al

al — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:26:38 +0000

And a new colour scheme

By: alan

alan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:36:08 +0000

Seems like I’ve returned from the abyss ( otherwise known as an ‘English Winter’ ) so I’ll just comment to check that it’s still all in good working order…

Hmmm, the ability to edit comments – for a limited period of time – seems to have vanished, such is progress, software versions move on and useful features fall by the wayside in droves ! That’s why I’ve gone back to a small filofax (pocket notebook) from an electronic organiser, for my personal info – apart from the lead breaking, not much else goes wrong with a pencil

By: alan

alan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:46:44 +0000

Lewis – similar situation here in that whilst I love the modern Orpheo alto and tenor, I tend to have some old (usually Martin stencil) horns just laying about or balanced precariously near the dogs – I couldn’t risk the Orpheo’s like that…

Anyway, I get as much (if not more) pleasure coaxing a sound – a much DIFFERENT sound – out of the old ‘uns… Now if I was playing sax for hours each and every night, I’d probably really appreciate the efficiency of the modern horns, but for a quick ‘toot’, the old ‘uns have far more soul and an affinity to me.

There is no easy answer, oh how simple it was when I only had one of each, sax and mouthpiece…

By: Lewis Pelham

Lewis Pelham — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:14 +0000

Alan. Good to see you back on form.
With regard to the Italian word Maestro; almost any word in Italian sounds gorgeous….I grew up drooling over the names of Italian racing drivers…Tazio Nuvolari & Eugenio Castelotti for example…..it seemed to me that their names alone were worth an extra 45 Bhp.
On that subject I have dragged out my old battleaxe Grassi Professional 2000 & have been surprised how good it is. It has spent the last year in it’s case under the bed while I have been dallying with Sam’s Big B….vastly different, but both excellent. I shall gig the Grassi tonight with it’s new SR Tech Fusion mouthpiece….how fickle can a chap be?

By: alan

alan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:20:58 +0000

Lewis – it’s still the same, http://cmelodysax.co.uk/blog/ still works, all the accounts still work, just that over a period of time ‘csax.net’ will show in the address bar instead of cmelodysax.co.uk/blog… Google has far too many search links for me to completeley ditch the old address for the forseeable future, so it will always be an ‘alternative’ address, and I have ‘cmelodysax’ coded into a lot of web pages that will need to be changed – they were in need of tidying up anyway.

Not so sure that “Lazarus “Mainline” Windbag” has a ‘ring’ to it – I spent a short time in Italy where it seemed every musician was referred to as “Maestro…”, that’s nice. I’ve been called a lot worse

By: Lewis Pelham

Lewis Pelham — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:59:03 +0000

Also still checking that I am still persona grata.
I too may change my name in order to reflect, more accurately, the public’s perception of the typical sax. player….Lazarus “Mainline” Windbag perhaps

By: JonF

JonF — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:19 +0000

More interesting things than saxophones? Are you mad, man?

Seriously, I like the new name.

Jon

By: Gandalfe

Gandalfe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:23 +0000

So we’ll get to learn more about Alan? Should be interesting. And you’ll have more topics to write about. I tend to drop things on my blog that I want to have available so that for example; I remember when I bought that camera, started riding the scooter to work and started up the new sax quartet. Cheers.

By: alan

alan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:43:26 +0000

Just making sure that comments are still possible…