Started playing 1 year ago with a rented saxophone. 2 months ago I gave it back and bought a used alto jupiter jp 769 ds2.
The included mouthpiece was broken tho, so I went to my local music store, planning to buy a quality piece that would suffice my needs for several years. The dude there gave me all the mouthpieces he deemed appropriate for me as a relatively new alto player to try (sevenish) and the sound of that one Selmer S90 (not 100% sure actually, not at home atm) for tenor completely blew my mind.
It was hella hard to play but I absolutely adored the sound. I was wondering because it said tenor on the packet, but he told me that it doesn't make a difference. It felt a bit hard to put onto to the cork, but I didnt own any grease at that time and my old one didn't work any better in that regard anyway. For that reason and because I trusted the guy, I bought the mp and some grease with it happily without any second thougts. At home the grease didn't do much tho, but I just thougt that the product is trashy abd kept using it anyway.
So i kept practicing for 2 months, only 2-3 times a week tho because I'm very time constrained atm. The grease prob kept worrying me, but I never bothered googling for a solution until today. During that search I read that the difference between tenor and alto mpcs actually does matter tho. The guy in the shop never mentioned the different intonation, the size and everything. Now I'm prettry scared that I wasted 180€ and screwed my intonation up hella badly. D: Thoughts?
The included mouthpiece was broken tho, so I went to my local music store, planning to buy a quality piece that would suffice my needs for several years. The dude there gave me all the mouthpieces he deemed appropriate for me as a relatively new alto player to try (sevenish) and the sound of that one Selmer S90 (not 100% sure actually, not at home atm) for tenor completely blew my mind.
It was hella hard to play but I absolutely adored the sound. I was wondering because it said tenor on the packet, but he told me that it doesn't make a difference. It felt a bit hard to put onto to the cork, but I didnt own any grease at that time and my old one didn't work any better in that regard anyway. For that reason and because I trusted the guy, I bought the mp and some grease with it happily without any second thougts. At home the grease didn't do much tho, but I just thougt that the product is trashy abd kept using it anyway.
So i kept practicing for 2 months, only 2-3 times a week tho because I'm very time constrained atm. The grease prob kept worrying me, but I never bothered googling for a solution until today. During that search I read that the difference between tenor and alto mpcs actually does matter tho. The guy in the shop never mentioned the different intonation, the size and everything. Now I'm prettry scared that I wasted 180€ and screwed my intonation up hella badly. D: Thoughts?