I think it's here okay now see what haha you know this is Jay Metcalf here with
another better sex video this week we've gone over 30,000 subscribers here on the
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last week's video comparing the four great professional tenor saxophones I
got a lot of people asking me to do a comparison between a cheap horn because
you know a lot of people are wanting to buy saxophone but they don't have
thousands of dollars to get something of a professional quality so I decided to
put my money where my mouth is I bought this saxophone off of Amazon it costs
two hundred and seventy dollars it's the cheapest one available that is available
both in North America and Europe so in this video I'm going to first unbox this
thing show you everything that comes inside the case then I'm gonna put the
leak light down it and we're gonna check and see how well the pads are sealing
I'm gonna give a quick look over the mechanism and how well it's built and
then I'm gonna play test it and put it up against my yanagisawa A991 alto
saxophone which is a professional horn and just about as good as it gets when
it comes to alto saxophone we're gonna open her up just you know this was
actually shipped in a box that was not the actual delivery this on outside says
Slade designed by USA what is designed by USA mean? the outside pocket here
there's a top handle okay you can add backpack straps that
will be on the inside I'm sure oh it's got these feet on the bottom swab comes
with it over here you've got another swab this is like a neck and mouthpiece
pumpkin is like a microfiber cloth perfect one less thing to buy mouthpiece
brush next strap it's got everything you need you don't need to get a neck strap
as well this is the gloves the gloves are come with every Chinese saxophone or
instrument Wow why do we have gloves anybody from China
who watches me please in the comments below tell me why you guys have gloves
with all your instruments like I would never play a saxophone with gloves
because I would think I would lose a grip on the keys and everything but
maybe it's maybe I should try it these are my these are the nicest gloves
I've ever seen in the Chinese history I don't like them polishing cloths this
thing looks like it's some sort of mute of course you got some reeds and okay
here are the backpack straps finally we get to the mouthpiece and it has a reed
attached to it and a ligature a linkage is wow it was really on there tight it's
like a copy of a Selmer C star design but it's probably plays terrible but
we'll try it out you know just to make sure I don't have much high hopes for
those reeds the neck this this comes in two finishes there's one that's more
like a reddish brass bronze sort of color which is the one I got and then
there's another one that's more of them without the red okay now the saxophone
haha
there you go
you know what I mean it may be it's a little bit it's a little bit maybe to
read and went out maybe the other color you're good but it looks it has that
kind of sort of a vintage vibe to it check out the key pearls the pearls are
like this kind of cool psychedelic but if that doesn't bother me I'm sure
they're not pearls I'm sure there's plastic all of the keys are wedged
closed for shipping which is standard for all new saxophones you wedge the
keys close it keeps the seats on the pads first step is take out all of these
wedges
inside of this horn is this this is the important part the end plug I'm not a
big fan okay everything you need to get started it's you know for 270 bucks if
this thing plays well serious bargain let's put the leak light down there and
see no adjustment like that that I'm just trying to make right there on the
old Chinese x1 I would have already broken the thing so overall after
putting the leak light down this to my surprise I guess the horn seems to be
sealing pretty well I'm gonna quickly just check the mechanisms and how see if
there's play okay so I can't even hear that that's the B key a little bit of
play there he is alright she is okay F F sharp or okay D has a
bit of play one more thing that's that's an issue for me on these Chinese horns
in the past there's been the key corks it's the sort of thing that if within
the first week you got keys key corks going off then you got the really like
on these feet these feet here so I'm gonna just quickly with my fingernail
see if that one comes off or anything no it seems to be on there reasonably well
they this horn came with a lot of accessories but it one thing very
important that it did not come with is cork grease no I've got my neck here
I've got my mouthpiece I don't even have any cork grease here in my studio so
here's a quick and dirty trick if you don't have cork grease
saliva tastes like a Chinese factory I want to see of their own mouthpiece that
came with the horn fits the mouthpiece actually plays okay not a great fit the
neck into the neck ten minutes already see like tight coming out to focus on
that this is something you want to wipe that clean it might be dust on there
also you got to be careful when you don't get a good fit turning this tenon
inside the receiver over and over that you're not going to mess up this
mechanism here you're gonna want to take a nice cloth and make sure you clean
that and I clean out the receiver any little bit of dirt or dust in there is
gonna affect how well this SEOs you can also put some cork grease on there to
help that go in smoother I'm gonna record the first notes this is straight
out of the box no adjustments to the keys or the pads and using the
mouthpiece that comes with that I've got my ligature and my read on there
okay that's surprisingly good that's almost shockingly good I mean
this is their mouthpiece mouthpiece and I played I mean I played out altissimo B
for 270 dollars it doesn't look half bad either okay I've got my eye moon alto
saxophone bought on Amazon for $270 and my professional yanagisawa alto
saxophone the new version of this being sold today goes for $4,500 I'm gonna
play the same thing on both of them you listen carefully with your headphones
you're good speakers and let me know in the comments below how they stack up for
you
so there you have it I think this sound difference is pretty
clear however this saxophone costs like four
thousand five hundred dollars new and this one costs two hundred and seventy
dollars so you do the math you can get a great sound out of this it plays over
the whole range no problem it plays in tune and with a good mouthpiece and Reed
setup you know I can play this and you know unless I played this one right
after it you mean like yeah that sounds pretty good this is something that just
didn't exist a while back a totally legit student instrument for two hundred
and seventy dollars and that includes a playable mouthpiece Reed's neck strap
the cleaning supplies a case if you're looking for a saxophone to get started
with and you've got a budget of around three hundred dollars I can recommend
you go on Amazon you pick up one of these if you do decide to buy one of
these saxophones please use the affiliate links that I've put in the
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