Baritone spike

[bunn]

I have bought a 'learn to play the baritone saxophone' book and am working through it. It's very early days, but I feel encouraged that I'm making more tuneful planned sounding noises and hitting the right notes! Part of the fiddly thing is that the baritone is in Eflat, and I keep reverting to Bflat clarinet fingering, but that will come with time.

I'd forgotten just how *heavy* an instrument it is. My neck and shoulders ache like nobody's business after half an hour. That saxophone used to have a spike to rest on while you played, like my bass clarinet did - that has gone AWOL, and the internet doesn't seem to know about saxophone spikes. Stands, yes. Slings, yes (I've already got two). Spikes, no. It's particularly annoying as it's still got the sort of bracket thing on it to take the spike.

Anyone out there know of a good source of saxophone spikes....? (OK, I know it's a slim hope!)

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[chainmailmaiden]

I shall ask Bacchus. He seems to have played lots of instruments in his time and may well know of a retailer that has them.

By the way he said with your grapes, try eating one. If it tastes sweet then they have noble rot, if it tastes yucky then they just have some ordinary mold/rot/disease of some sort. He also asked if the leaves are wilted too.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I don't think they ever ripened: they went tiddly and brown :-(

The leaves aren't drooping and there is no visible mould, but the plant looks rather more gold-edged and autumnal than is usual for the end of Aug.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

... must take photo. I'd do it now only it's gone darkish already....

[chainmailmaiden]

He'd certainly be interested to see a photo, though of course he might not be able to tell you anything from it.

He recommended looking up instrument repair shops for the spike as he reckoned there was a pretty good chance someone might have one among their spare parts. His other rather less useful comment was "A baritone sax? they're really heavy."

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"Baritone Spike"

James Marsters in 'Once more, with feeling'.

(Guffaw, guffaw...)