Thoughts and thanks

Hello
Yes ,I asked the same kind of question before ,but now I asked particularly about the saxophone.
I am using my voice and its the most flexible instrument of all ,and I try yo find an instrument that requires not so much of hand technique but some short of vocal straight forwardness ,because my voice is not the best sound that exists.
I bought a violin and its the most flexible ,but I don't like violin sound so much.
I have been playing guitar for 6 years and I am considering the fretless
guitar,but I want an acoustic instrument(I use synthesizers and I want to be indepented of electricity this time) and acoustic guitars are not my favourite sound.
I am just asking about woodwinds ,brasses and microtonal flexibility.
Please excuse my many questions so far,you have all been very helpful.
Meanwhile I am studying hard musical acoustics and tunings so I will
be qualified to talk with you in a higher level of understanding.

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> I am just asking about woodwinds ,brasses and microtonal
flexibility.

As you may know, our own Johnny Reinhard has mastered the
possibilities of the bassoon, playing any conceivable scale through a
combination of fingerings and embrochure, and multiphonics to boot.
Johnny edited four issues of the journal _PITCH For the International
Microtonalist_, and in No. 4, you will find 72-tone and other
microtonal fingering charts for saxophone, other winds, and French
Horn. I've heard of some errata for these charts as well . . . Johnny?

Yes, it's true that I think the bassoon is the ideal microtonal wind
instrument. Even more than the fretless strings and trombone, I find ways to
produce all forms of glissandi and intervals. As for the fingerings in PITCH
I:4, I do not have errata. I believe a legend might have helped the oboe
chart by Sullivan, but I don't know of any specific errors since it came out.
However, please do let me know about them and I will have them corrected.

For the nonce, come hear some microtonal bassoon, as well as microtonal
everything else at this year's MICROTHON 2000, Saturday Nov. 11 from 1:30--9
PM at the Quaker Meeting House in NYC.

Johnny Reinhard
Bassoonist/Director
AFMM