[HN Gopher] The open source saxophone project (2017)
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The open source saxophone project (2017)
Author : georgeoliver
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-08-29 05:04 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.stohrermusic.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.stohrermusic.com)
| zwieback wrote:
| Cool, I have a Selmer 5 digit Mark VI tenor that needs a tune-up.
| I'm afraid to give it to anyone as it's kind of a collectors
| item. I'll contact this guy to see what to do or maybe use the
| instructions to do my own work.
| AureliusMA wrote:
| hug of death :-(
| analog31 wrote:
| I play a stringed instrument. Good repairers are a dying breed,
| and worth their weight in gold. These instruments are meant to be
| played, and get taken out and knocked around. Repairs often
| involve specialized skills that a musician can't tackle
| ourselves.
| DavidPeiffer wrote:
| I played saxophone through middle school and high school. I
| loved watching the repairman work on my saxophone. The passion
| was clearly there, and he was always getting really neat
| saxophones into his shop.
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| He got saxophones in from around the world, and did a full
| restoration on a full set of original horns made by Adolphe
| Sax.
|
| https://www.barnardrepair.com/projects#/the-adolphe-sax-fami...
| analog31 wrote:
| That's amazing. One thing worth noting is that instrument
| designs evolved to be repairable, even if repair required
| specialized materials and techniques. For instance the old
| fashioned hide glue, basically a form of gelatin, is still
| the only acceptable glue for string instruments except under
| some extreme circumstances.
|
| Had they been made with modern adhesives, the Stradivarius
| violins would have been firewood in a generation.
| julian_t wrote:
| A friend of mine did woodwind instrument repairing at college,
| and the final project was to build a saxophone from scratch. It
| proved that you could work with every part of the instrument, but
| she said if you did it for real you'd make much better money
| flipping burgers.
| gorjusborg wrote:
| Check out his philosophy on the site.
|
| I especially liked his calculation on how many intstruments he
| can repair during his lifetime. His conclusion isn't existential
| panic, or a plan to 'scale', but seemingly, that he needs to make
| them count.
|
| I can see why he has a waiting list.
| albertzeyer wrote:
| While the website is offline, there is probably some interesting
| content on the YouTube channel:
| https://www.youtube.com/@StohrerMusic
| kristianp wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230206070726/https://www.stohr...
| bwanab wrote:
| As a saxophone player myself, I highly recommend Matt Stohrer's
| work. It is full of useful information about the instrument and
| maintaining it. They are finicky instruments that need a lot of
| attention. I'd go to him all the time, but he's way down in North
| Carolina and I hate sending my saxes off with carrier services.
| I'm lucky that my local repairs are done by Jack Tyler at Boston
| Sax Shop.
| jacquesm wrote:
| This took forever to find, I came across this many years ago when
| I was still playing and I found it fascinating because you spend
| quite a bit of time as a beginner memorizing the pretty bizarre
| key sequences required to produce the notes on the chromatic
| scale. Apparently I wasn't the only person with that gripe,
| someone designed a sax with a linear key pattern:
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| https://jsengineering.net/saxes-with-linear-fingering-system...
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