magnificent sound and the engraving is an artwork

great music and sound

Congrats on a wonderful sax. Sounds incredible...

Good night...Pete, you sound amazing on this!

Bravo!

One of my favourte sounding saxophones..the 'Two Voices' and o well played. Too may players on YT sound like they are in a hurry to finish. :) No pasion or soul to their playing. LAike theyère not enjoying the intrument. Just playing it because their mother told them to :))

I extensively play-tested the bronze (no silver bell) versus the bare brass (no silver bell) @ NAMM 2023 and bought the latter, largely on the strength of the bronze one HAVING "a sound." It leads you into Texas/balls. The brass is perhaps more lyrical. I'm currently favoring getting the bronze 2 voices alto, however. Somehow the bronze on alto is less directional. YOur thoughts?

@markwiseman49 It's a PPT, a mouthpiece I designed for my own needs, but is now available form my site and getting some good reviews.

Cool

This is a tenor in the lows, an alto in the high mids and a soprano in the highs.

The manufactures say it is the different materials: bronze body, solid silver bell. Retail price is about £8000 but you can buy them for around £5700. It shouldn't cost more than a few quid for a tech to set up if you have any specific needs.

@simonebartolini7561

5 жыл бұрын

Money well spent , unbelievable sound!

That's beautiful. What mouthpiece are you using here?

I bought the bare brass tenor and just play-tested several of the models this weekend. The solid bronze tenor would be a horn that has "a" sound - big, beefy, Texas tenor, but the 2 voices is the same horn with a solid silver bell (it also comes in brass + silver bell). I cannot hit altisimmo G and G# on any of them (and I've been playing for 50 years). Some say having the high F# key helps (I don't like them and it's not on my bare brass). But even with the high F# key, I couldn't get those notes to pop out (no problem with any of the others). Do you have this problem? Any suggestions? I am going to also buy either the two voices or the Solista alto, I like them both.

@sespublic505

11 ай бұрын

Can't speak for the tenors, but I had a similar issue with the R&C R1 Jazz sopranos. I bought the silver and gold plated curved soprano they had on display at NAMM 2023. I also have a semi-curved gold plated R1 Jazz soprano. The semi-curved is very free-blowing, the fully curved is much more resistant. I found them to be "mouthpiece sensitive" in the upper register. They tend to respond better with small-medium chamber mouthpieces. Best response was with an old Selmer S80 square chamber I've had for 30+ years. Next best was Beechler 7, then Bari 68. Funny though, I can get up to altissimo D on my old trusty Yamaha 62, pops right out.

@JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton

11 ай бұрын

@@sespublic505 Hi, I don't know if we met at NAMM or not, I'm the tall white guy who was trying out the tenors. I remember Claudio mentioning that someone bought the soprano on display. I was using my Drake Pete Christleib (small/medium chamber) at NAMM, but I've since bought a Francois Louis Spectruso 9* (I had a 10* for 12 years, wore it out) and it responds better. Still no high G, though. I also have a Yamaha Purple Logo soprano. Altissimo notes pop right out. In 2014, I tried a Keilwerth soprano and I couldn't even get the palm keys. I think it's the large bore on all of these horns. I am currently playing my 1924 Conn New Wonder tenor on the East coast, no high G there, either! I think the harmonic window is just too small. No problems on my Mark VI tenor at all. Do you R&C sopranos have high F# and high G keys? Some say the high F# key allows high G to pop out on all tenors. I hate those keys and none of my horns have them. I actually flew to Springfield, MS to try a bunch of R&C tenors at Palen Music. Some had the high F# key, it didn't help.

What really differs here that gives this sax so many voices? What's the retail price? R&C is a great brand but very expensive, and I personally like to have my saxes looked over by a tech, so thats putting out a lot of money

Can't really hear the actual acoustic sound of the R&C with this demo, however it's a nice reverb if that's what you are into.

@strasthomasfamily

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you will hear it if you listen hard enough

These saxophones are mysterious but I think Pete could make just about any horn sound great so I’d like to hear one in the context of an upbeat post be-bop tune aka Rollins. I’d want to get a better idea of the action, responsiveness, ergonomics, weight, balance, etc.