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:lol: I'd have to buy one. :P
USM's only got 20 lolol
I can't even make a sound on a piccolo. :P

Haii! ^^
I'm really thankful for all the advice, really. :D

^ For those of you that were wondering/ suggested i do it, I did march brass in high school. (against my will) I played the tuba. I...

In my old high school, the altos were tuned with B natural and F sharp.
Personally, I like to use Concert F (D) because I'm a biter and my pitch is usually pretty sharp if I'm not paying attention....

Hey! Thanks for replying!
I'm sure USM doesn't allow them on the field, but band camp starts next wednesday, so for the sake of learning, I'm sure it'll be fine during practice.

Both of your...

Haii. ^^
Cannon Ball Big Bell Stone--standard neck
Caravan large chamber mpc.
Hemke reeds @ 3 = <3
... it may not be much, but it works for me :D

Hello kind people of SOTW. I've come (once again) to bug you with my crazies.

So I graduated high school in May, and come next week, I will be marching at the University of Southern...

November 8th will make it a year that I've had the cannonball, and I like it.
It's certainly a major improvement from my Vito. :D
I'm not really an expert on saxophone mechanics, and what-not,...

^ lol sounds familiar! ^^
We had a director, we called her the bird lady. She had bleach blonde hair,tightly pursed lips, and her nose looked eerily similar to a bird's beak. She was a tyrant. She...

Okay. I've got a few huge auditions coming up:
my college scholarship auditions, and the all state lions band auditions.
both will be done on alto sax (I'll do the lion's band auditions on alto and...

My first sax was a student vito affectionately named Chedda-Bob
I traded him last November for a Cannonball Big Bell. Sheer love, I say.
I play the school's Cannonball Big Bell bari, and their...

8th grade (tuba): Majesty, I saw the light, and Kum bah Yah.
Freshman year (tuba): Starwars, Superman, Jaws, Indiana Jones, and ET.
Sophomore year (tuba): House of the Rising Sun, I SAW THE...

:D
Thanks a ton! Y'all seriously have no idea how much reading this has helped me.
I'm gonna look into the 2nd movement of the Paul Creston when school starts. I've had the 3rd for a few months and...

Sorry, but I didn't want to invade any of the other ones with my insanity.
I'm a senior this year, which means I'm going to have to prepare for scholarship auditions, and such.
Okay, here's the...

Hmm...
My junior year was the first year that I ever got to march with an alto sax. I had changed schools, and from 8th-10th grade, I marched with the tuba. (band director didn't like marching bari...

Old school with Tom Henry didnt want to march a bari. He coveted the thing. So i HAD to play tuba during marching band...he wouldn't let me go back to alto once i got in high school....

Ohyeah!
I do plan on playing in college.
I talked to one of the Band Directors at Mississippi State University, last week, and she suggested pretty much what you were saying, King Koeller.

I'll...

Ha! That's why I ended up on bari at my old school; of course, I played tuba in marching band, but strongly protested playing it in concert. :lol:
Tom didnt want the school's bari sax out in the...

I'm happy nau! ^^
the old, rebellious Elkhart plays JUST JC's Cannonball bari!
the lig worked awesome (i called Mississippi Music, and they didn't have the lig in store, but they were willing to...

funny, funny.
(well, not funny like 'ha ha' but funny in a sort of messed up ironic way, no doubt)
our stories are practically Identical...just take out your 4 tenors, and and add my 3 baris from...

pffft. I'm working with a used student Vito...
yeah...

But I can't really complain, I mean I've had it for over 6 years and it's been nothing but good to me
except the time when he decided to go...