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Saxophone and microtones

🔗Alexandros Papadopoulos <alexmoog@hotmail.com>

9/12/2000 12:48:49 PM

Hello
Excuse my ignorance ,but how can you play microtones on the saxophone?
Can anybody inform me about Joe Maneri's 72 tone octave on saxophone?
Thanks
Alex P.
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🔗phv40@hotmail.com

9/12/2000 4:52:32 PM

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <alexmoog@h...>
wrote:
> Hello
> Excuse my ignorance ,but how can you play microtones on the
saxophone?
> Can anybody inform me about Joe Maneri's 72 tone octave on
saxophone?
> Thanks
> Alex P.

I play microtones all the time on my still-new xaphoon, a bamboo reed
instrument which sounds like a cross between a sax and a clarinet.
In other words, my intonation needs work. A lot of work... :)

Paolo