Not the good kind.
I may have damaged my brother's saxophone by dropping it (it was in the case). So I get to tell him that and I don't get to teach myself the music for an upcoming concert and I probably get to come up with a bunch of money to fix the damned thing.
The wierd thing is, when I first picked it up today, I could play as well as normal. But I tried a D and it overtoned to A. And then not long after that everything I played was an octave up unless I hit the octave key, in which case the notes were what they were supposed to be. A little later, hitting the octave key made it possible to only hit a few notes.
The fact that it got worse as I played it longer gives me a slight hope that I'm messing something up in how I'm playing, rather than the saxophone being damaged. I'm very new to saxophone, I'm tired, and I hadn't played in a while when I picked it up a few moments ago. But I don't see what I could have done to have such an effect.
Why are all my problems so weird?
17 Feb 2008, 9:46 pm
