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(To read an article by another “old-timer describing his first encounter with these, click here.) To me, this reset the standard for student horns.
#VITO TENOR SAXOPHONE PRO#
No, the horn didn’t play like a pro horn, but it blew as easily and sounded almost as good as the Buescher-designed Signet Alto I had used my first year of college. The octave key mechanism on the neck had a big wide area with the Vito logo on it, not unlike the Selmer Mark VI’s trademark S. And it had the kind of ergonomic key layouts that I had heretofore seen only on Selmer Balanced Action and Mark VI horns. Testing it out, I was surprised to discover that it had a full, open tone, more like an intermediate horn than the Bundies and Directors I was used to. One day a horn I had never seen came across my work table - a Vito alto saxophone. I’d check the horn for obvious damage, play it a bit to make certain there weren’t any problems, wipe it down, make certain the requisite accessories were in the case, vacuum out and deodorize the case and move on to the next one. I got pretty familiar with all the standard lines. Selmer Bundy and Gemeinhardt flutes, Selmer Bundy saxes and clarinets, Conn Director saxes and brass, and so on. I could get notes out of all the wind instruments, and had a good eye for details like fingerprints, scratches, and bent rods so that work usually fell to me, especially the woodwinds.
While I was at the store, one of our jobs was cleaning up the returned rental band instruments. In fact, it wasn’t long after that before the store closed. So it wasn’t long before I was back at Radio Shack. Not to mention the owner “forgetting” to send our paychecks on time as often as not. For example, I consistently outsold the other two in-store salesmen put together, and I should have been rolling in commissions, but I was still making so little money that I couldn’t even afford wholesale guitar strings. Nothing worked out the way I expected, though. When I took the job, I had been earning minimum wage in Radio Shack, so I figured that, even though I’d still be, technically, earning minimum wage, at least I could get the music gear I wanted cheap. I wish I still looked like that stranger in the photo.From the summer of 1978 to the spring of 1979, I worked in a short-lived music store in Huber Heights, Ohio. I think I sing really well, my wife has other thoughts on that. When I was a little kid, if I never saw Al Hirschfeld’s caricature on the cover of the record, for the Broadway show, “My Fair Lady,” I don’t know what I would be doing now. If I go I want my brains spread all over the pavement! 12. I’d rather be on my bike in the streets of Paris, even after two accidents. But then, I yelled in English not French! 11. They ignored me when I yelled at them and asked why they were there. Some years ago, I saw three ghosts (people from the late 1800s), at the same time, in this apartment.
#VITO TENOR SAXOPHONE HOW TO#
I have no idea how to use a cell phone or want to. Je parle français comme une vache espagnole. It is still one of my favorite paintings of all time. When I was a little kid, the first painting I saw, when my father brought my sister and me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was “Madame X” by John Singer Sargent.
And regret that I will probably be dead when the real story finally gets out. Michael Jackson is the most famous person I ever met and worked for (in 1988). People have called her a Saint for having to live with me. This May, married 30 years to my wife, Brenda (we met in High School at age 15, no, never High School sweethearts, just best friends). I’ve never really acknowledged George’s passing. Couldn’t hear a thing, except for the screaming! John’s murder was too much for me. I saw them live at Shea Stadium, August 1966. If these 16 things don’t put you to sleep……….
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