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Clean and Tune-up Your Sax Life
When your sax get dirty and leaky take it apart and clean it looking for worn parts to replace.
It shouldn't take long it only has a few parts.
What? 65 pieces! Holy Caramba.
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Once upon a time... I bought a saxophone from Goodwill. Came in a case and everything. There didn't seem to be any music coming out of it and the finger worky bits were .. kinda sluggish, not crisp and responsive. It was cheap, I had more ambition than skill, more time than talent... more money than sense... I brought it home.
I took it apart.
As I alluded in the opening... this was awhile ago. As far as I know, all those parts are still singular parts. Apart. I never got the thing back together, I barely got more than half if it apart. The picture's interesting, but it's deceiving, there's a lot of clockwork and springs and hinges there, nevermind the #0000 setscrews removable only by destruction... I should have just gotten a Rolex and set to it with my chainsaw.
Don't talk to me about my sax life.
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xoxoxoBruce wrote:
When your sax get dirty...
When your sax gets dirty, warm it up.
What?
I thought urrbody liked hot, dirty sax.
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Played sax in high school, btw.
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The picture's interesting, but it's deceiving, there's a lot of clockwork and springs and hinges there, nevermind the #0000 setscrews removable only by destruction... I should have just gotten a Rolex and set to it with my chainsaw.
Do you mean there's more than 65 parts? 
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I didn't count them, not in your image or in my saxophone/project/lesson. I mean, that picture looks about as complex as a model car or plane I might have assembled as a kid.
whooo boy..
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