Hello YouTube! I'm pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson welcome to Get Your Sax Together.
On this video I'm gonna open up my sax case and we're gonna look at all
the bits and bobs I've got inside.
So I'm out on the road at the moment with
Wet Wet Wet so I thought we'd do something a bit different for today's video. So I'm
going to open up the sax case and we'll have a look at all the little bits and bobs
I've got inside and there'll be a free PDF that you can download for the list
of all the stuff in case you want to pick up any little bits and bobs. If
you're enjoying the channel please do subscribe and click the bell icon to
be notified when I upload new videos. So let's get on with it and see what's
inside my sax case!
Okie Dokes people let's have a little look what is in my
sax case - let's do it! Well, first of all I have a BAM sax case which I like
because he's got this big front pocket section and actually you can unzip it
and it telescopes out like this to become absolutely massive and I can get
clarinet, flute... I get all my doubling woodwind instruments in there so that's
a pretty cool feature. I've never put it in the hold of an airplane and I
wouldn't like to but, you know, it's pretty solid. Right, let's have a look
inside the case... dah dah daaaaaah! Boosh! So, what we got? First thing we have, obviously, is my
Selmer Mark 6 tenor saxophone. Look at this beauty McGinntoss! So this is serial
number 227,032, which is one of the last mark sixes to be made in the 70s, so it
is a late mark six. In the top, as an endcap, I use this champagne cork which
actually fits perfectly in the end of your tenor sax, then inside the bell I
have this BG crook bag. Now the reason I like this one is because
you can fit the whole crook and the mouthpiece on it in the one bag. So I've
got a Rovner Versa ligature, which I love, and you can see it's got these kind of
section like that inside it which is supposed to let the reed vibrate more.
Many people have posted things online about how ligatures don't matter and all
that and I kind of agree, but I really like this one so that's what I use. The
mouthpiece that I use is an Ottolink Super Tone Master, called the Florida model. Now if I
could get in on it you see that it says "USA" on there...that is the distinguishing
feature and you can look up online and geek out about what it is. So yeah, I find
it an extremely versatile mouthpiece - I can use it for anything. So, got my mark six,
got my Florida Link... what else have we got in the case? So this is my Snark tuner
that you can clip onto the instrument and then using the vibration from your
instrument it tells you if you're in tune or not despite if there's loads of
other noise going on, which is absolutely fantastic if you're playing in a section
and you want to know if your note is in tune. That's an absolute game changer.
So that's my snark tuner. Right, let's come round here and see what else is in
here... So this is my sling. I like to use a sling that goes over my shoulder like a
harness because it takes all the weight off my neck and that is a B G. This is my
reed case. Now you can have up to eight reeds
from any horn in here but that is a humidifying pouch which means that the
reeds don't dry out in the case and it keeps them nice and flat on this thing.
I'll put the brand of that one down in the description because I can't remember
off the top of my head and once I finish the gig the reeds always go straight
back in the case - not just kept on the mouthpiece. I've got two main swabs - this
is a body swab which you literally just put through the top of the instrument, it
comes out of the bell and you pull through and it swabs out the whole inside
of the instrument. And this is the swab for my neck and mouthpiece, which is a BG A31.
Now, the reason I like it is because the string on it is kind of
stiff so it's easy to push through the neck, whereas their classic sort of
clarinet pull through is a bit more difficult to operate, so it's got that little
kink so it bends around and it folds up nicely and that is what I use to swab out
my neck and mouthpiece. Right, now we move on to the real exciting part, which is
the pencil case of doom! Woooo!!! I'm going to have to put that up on a
surface to pull things out one by one because there's absolutely loads in
here, hang on... Number one - spare neck strap. I've got three different tapes.
This tape is microporous tape which I use for taping up parts,
this one is waterproof plumbing tape and that is excellent for putting round the
neck cork to make it bigger if your mouthpiece is too big or it's also good
for the tenon joint between the neck and the main body of the instrument. When it gets
wet it doesn't all rot as if you're using paper. This is just plain old
electrical tape which might come in handy on gigs, or mending things or
keeping things together. Now most saxophonists will recognise
this - this is my Reed Geek tool and it's got a little pouch bag thing that goes
with it as well. This is what you might call the stationery section - this is a 6b
pencil. Lovely and soft. A pleasure to markup parts with. I've also got a nice
big fat version of that. I think that's a 6b as well with the rubber on the end,
eraser on the end. Got a nice big red Sharpie for marking in signs and codas
and then I've got the whiteout pen, Tippex, Snowpake, whatever you want to call
it, for making corrections on parts. Pretty permanent that - use with care! A
nice big eraser, rubber. Small sharpener for the small pencil, big sharpener for
the big pencil and it's also got the small one as well actually - that's a double
whammy. These are miniature post-it notes which
I can stick in parts. My eyesight is pretty rubbish so I wear
contact lenses. I've got a spare lens for each eye in
case my lenses fall out for some reason. lol I've got a quarter-inch headphone
splitter. I don't know why I've got that. That's probably for when you're sitting
in on shows and you need to plug your headphones into the other person to hear
what they're hearing. This is useful - this is by BG. This is a super-absorbent
little wipe that you can put under the pads. It takes away all the moisture on the
pads, if you've got a sticky pad like a sticky g-sharp or if you've got a sticky
b-flat on clarinet or something like that you can use that to mop up the
moisture. These are Yamaha cleaning papers, cigarette paper type thing, which
you can use to mop up any bubbly watery keys you've got. Spare mouthpiece patches.
In here I've got an electrical cleaner solvent - fast evaporating for cleaning
pads and then I use these earbuds or q-tips which I just dab it in there and
then wipe under the key to get rid of any gunk and it doesn't leave any residue
and it evaporates really fast. So that's good for if you've got sticky
keys. Now if you look at this tiny hook - I think this was from some sort of pipe
cleaning kit or something from years ago - but you can use that to hook onto your
springs and pull them back if they spring out, that's useful. Spare cork for
making repairs. Small scissors to cut the cork. Superglue, in case. Now then, you
might be wondering why I've got a lighter in the kit? Well if you very
gently put your neck cork underneath the flame of a lighter, without setting it on
fire or anything like that, it will expand the cork and make the cork bigger to fit
your mouthpiece, so that's why I've got the lighter in there. I don't smoke!
Sandpaper for making corks smaller, obviously. Nice compact size cork grease
there. Various sizes of elastic bands in case a spring goes. Tweezers to handle
corks when I'm making repairs. Useful to have a pair of tweezers. Obviously,
selection of jeweler's screwdrivers which are useful for, well, obviously,
putting screws in! lol And then I've got a few mini cable ties in case of bigger
repairs. That is a quarter inch to 3.5 millimeter headphone adapter. The last
thing I've could find, lurking down the bottom here, is a battery for the Snark.
And that is pretty much it for all the stuff that's in this little pencil case!
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