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Takeshi He changed the title haha

@Eden Peter how dare you scam in my very own reply section

I would never try this at home.😣 This is scary to me.😨 I most definitely would have to have this done by a professional.💲😊👍🏾

He said not to do it alone

Lucky

Same i dont have school until september

@@saxy6893 that suuucckkkksss

Ha, I played trumpet in high school way back in the '70s, and I used to borrow saxes & flutes for fun! You're bringing me back.

SaXy WHATT? We don’t have school for 6 weeks but September? That’s like next school year here.

f4de 😂

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Might be because you're not as familiar with the parts as you could be before fixing. Also since its easier to lose parts on a sax

Yep, me too. I can rebuild transmissions, but I don't want to damage my saxophone. Bought a good Haynes manual for it. Studying! "Approach determines response [outcome]!"

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@@therealkaz5824, "...Time, time, time.... Look what's become of me...."

TheRealKaz we don’t need to use grammar on the fuckin internet this isn’t the English class you failed

Thanks 👍

It's one or the other, man. If you can do both, you're simply too powerful.

You spelled rubik’s wrong And I’ve done it

Ya think?😫I've never been into Rubics Cubes anyway.😄

Bruuh

Does are just the parts you just did not need. (lol)

ROFL!

thanks!

My alto is a Keilwerth too...never thought about the rolled tone holes making sticky pads worse. Sounds about right, because mine stick a lot! Especially G#. Gonna give everything a good clean and maybe get hold of some key leaves to see if I can stop it happening ever again.

haha

My pleasure!

well in then end when looking at the crazed people in the store it occurred to me that my viewers would forgive me if I didn't have every item I would have wanted to make this video given the circumstances. And it wasn't worth potentially contracting a deadly respiratory infection...

thanks!

Yup I run an ozone gen through vintage saxes when I buy them. Kills mold and mildew. Let your sax air out a bit and don’t breath the ozone when treating the sax

we used to use that at Rod Baltimore's shop in NYC. thanks for the input.

Definitely a great video though, LOL , I was a tad distressed to hear that these instruments can last for decades. I had rather hoped that would be the case.. You will have gathered that I really detest the sound of a saxophone!! Don't know why....

I will at some point. Don't need to replace any of my pads for another decade or so though...

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haha I forgot about that...

I appreciate that

if it's new why clean it?

Thanks!!

Coming soon!

yeah I have a bunch of those at home. forgot to bring one in for the video.

For some people, a cardboard box might be more convenient to poke a lot of X holes in, with a knife.

It can be caused by a ton of things actually. 1. It can be because of a bent or badly made tonehole rim. 2. Maybe the chimney started to come off if it has soldered toneholes. 3. It's possible that the pad is warped a bit. 4. The key or padcup could be bent, making the pad not parallel with the tonehole. 5. The pad could just be badly leveled by someone, so it doesn't sit at the correct angle in the key cup. 6. It is also possible, that the keys or posts are loose around the hinge rod or pivot screw (because of wear over time or the pivot screws backed out a bit) causing the pad to close differently every time you press down the key. It either makes the pad closing unparrallel to the tonehole or the impressions in the pad can make air escape if they don't meet with the tonehole rim exactly because of this key wobble. 7. It can also be possible that at some time in the past, the pad has fallen out, and someone glued it back in, but either didn't level it or glued the pad back in but rotated it differently. If you look at the pads, you can see that the impressions in the skin are usually not at the center of the pad. So if you rotate it differently, the impressions won't meet with the tonehole rim, causing air to leak. 8. One or more posts could have come partially or completely loose leading to the same issue as loose keys or someone could have soldered it/them back to a different position, making the pad either closing unevenly or closing to a different position that (again) causes air to leak under the impressions in the skin. 9. It's also possible that the problem is not even the pad, the mechanism or the tonehole. Leaks can be caused by cracks in the body as well. 10. A loose neck tenon or neck cork can also be a problem. If it's not tight enough, it can make the instrument a lot more difficult to play. 11. If the pad skin is too porous, you can also experience leaks. 12. Shitty mouthpieces can also make playing difficult. I once played on a Chinese made mouthpiece on a soprano and the mouthpiece was so narrow that the reed hang over the sides. I could barely make a sound on that shit, so I bought a Rousseau mouthpiece for 25,000 Hungarian forints if I remember correctly which would be 63.29 dollars today. At the time that money would worth around 70 dollars (thanks inflation 😆). So that new mouthpiece that wasn't even expensive immediately solved my problem. 13. If 2 keys are too close to each other, it can make one key to push another down with it, like low C can also push down the D#/Eb key, but you would have definitely noticed that if it was the case. 14. A pad might just be missing, but again, you would have noticed that. Although it's not always obvious which pad causes a problem. 15. If spring tension is too weak, you can actually blow a closed pad open. Of course, it only happens with pads that are held closed by a spring, and not by you. 16. If you have a pro sax, then this probably doesn't apply to you, but problems with playing technique or reed can also be a factor, but I guess you already knew that. 17. Bad pad timing can also cause leaks. A lot of keys move in unison, so they need to close at the same time, otherwise the pad that reaches its tonehole first, won't let the others close, because it can't move any further. 18. Corks and felts on the keys and/or body actually have a triple fuction. Every musician knows that they elliminate metallic noise that would occur when a key hits another key or the body. But they also prevent wear and tear, but its most important role is to make sure that the pad timing is correct, so their thickness needs to be precise. The problem is that over time, they compress (some may even fall off), making your instrument gradually get out of proper adjustment causing leaks. 19. Just plain out bad instrument (of course this doesn't apply to your sax). Some instruments are just awful. Chinese, Czech, Czechoslovak instruments are generally garbage just as the ones made in the GDR and don't even mention those things made India and some other countries. Some of them (especially Czech and Czechoslovak ones) are made out of the remains of battlefield tanks and have such a huge wall thickness that a .50 cal sniper rifle would just give up and get a job at Walmart. Of course it makes them durable against accidental hits, but also makes them a resistive shit. You may think that something is leaking a bit, but no, they are just that bad. So yeah it is a bit more complicated than people generally imagine, and this list is possibly isn't even complete, because I only got into this profession a year ago, so there are quite a lot of things that I just don't know yet. One thing in particular, when I had tried a Yamaha alto and everything was fine on that except for the upper register. High C# was working properly, but everything above that didn't. Especially the front F. D and D# was playable, but barely. My guess is that it was a mouthpiece problem, because everything seemed to be OK, and I'm experienced enough on the sax, that I can be 100% sure, that it wasn't a technical problem and those notes should have come out. If I can play them on a cheap Chinese sax even in a ppp dynamic, then a Yamaha shouldn't have any problems with it. Maybe someone could answer that one for me. But please, don't try to fix your instrument at home. As you can see from this list, it's much more complicated, than people think, so if you are not a professional, odds are, you'll just damage your instrument, and it also involves quite a lot of tools, many of them are spcialized tools for instrument repair and you can't find them in a regular hardware store anyways. COVID shouldn't even be a concern though, because as far as I know, that virus loses its ability to cause any harm pretty fast outside a host body. By the time you arrive at the shop, it'll be harmless, especially because they will just disinfect your sax before repair and after testing, just before they put it away, wearing gloves and they won't use your mouthpiece and reeds to begin with. Repair techs are only concerned about your mouthpiece when they clean it, make modifications on it, making a custom ligature or cap for it, or when they replace your neck cork. But they'll use their own mouthpieces in testing. And you can always be extra careful, if COVID is still a problem where you live, and disinfect the mouthpiece yourself as well. Sorry for the long reply. 😆

there's always a danger in messing something up when you get close to the mechanisms.