Mouthpiece Work / Hey All
FROM: tpinwa (Tom)
SUBJECT: Hey All
Another newbie onboard here. I will be prowling the forums files and postings for much info. For the last few months I have struggled with coming up with my own mouthpiece. And finally yesterday came up with the right combo to get three different kinds of tones. The one wanted was that low down deep tone. Now I find there is a forum out there to help people along this path. EXCELLENT ! End goal is to place it on a piece of bamboo or PVC and come up with a bamboo/sax. Another interest, is the making of a Duduk. Thanks for letting me on board. TP
FROM: klarinet_18 (Daniel Stover)
SUBJECT: OT: financial assistance
Hello to the list. I'm not sure if I will have any luck in this endeavor, but I thought if anywhere would be a good place to start, some of the lists I'm a member of would be the best places, with the wide knowledge and broad range of careers everyone is in.
In July 2008, I suffered a severe hemrrhagic stroke which has left me unable to use my left hand/arm at all. In early 2009 I found a group headed by a saxophone professor in a similar situation as myself founded to try to get adapted instruments into the hands of disabled musician like me. the goups is called the One-handed winds project(onehandwinds.unk.edu)
This saxophone rofessor helped develope a mechanism to allow the sax to be played with only the right hand. unfortunately, there are, to my knowledge, only two such instruments in existence.; the one he plays and one on loan to a saxophone student mentioned on the project's page. Last Spring, the founder was kind enough to let me try a modified recorder by Marten Visser. after a month of struggling with the mechanism and fingering chart, I was unable to even play simple scales with any accuracy and returned the instrument before my year-long rental contract began. In contacting him again to see if there had been any progress in making more saxophones available, He informed me that the builder gave him an estimate of $40,000 to build another. In contacting the builder myself to see what the bare minimum to get work started, if I were to donate my alto sax to be converted, he told me it would be about $15,000 to do all the work needed to convert an instrument to the one-handed machanism, and that the $40,000 estimate was a prototyping estimate for applying the mechanism to another instrument.
I'm curious if anyone knows of any grants or organisations devoted to helping disabled musicians or persons with disabilities that would be able to help with the cost of having my saxophone converted to the one-handed mechanism.
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FROM: ez_mpc (Ed Zentera)
SUBJECT: Re: OT: financial assistance
Here's one program I'm aware of (and encourage others to donate to): http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/ On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Daniel Stover <kasparguy@...> wrote: > > > > > > Hello to the list. I'm not sure if I will have any luck in this endeavor, but I thought if anywhere would be a good place to start, some of the lists I'm a member of would be the best places, with the wide knowledge and broad range of careers everyone is in. > > In July 2008, I suffered a severe hemrrhagic stroke which has left me unable to use my left hand/arm at all. In early 2009 I found a group headed by a saxophone professor in a similar situation as myself founded to try to get adapted instruments into the hands of disabled musician like me. the goups is called the One-handed winds project(onehandwinds.unk.edu) > This saxophone rofessor helped develope a mechanism to allow the sax to be played with only the right hand. unfortunately, there are, to my knowledge, only two such instruments in existence.; the one he plays and one on loan to a saxophone student mentioned on the project's page. Last Spring, the founder was kind enough to let me try a modified recorder by Marten Visser. after a month of struggling with the mechanism and fingering chart, I was unable to even play simple scales with any accuracy and returned the instrument before my year-long rental contract began. In contacting him again to see if there had been any progress in making more saxophones available, He informed me that the builder gave him an estimate of $40,000 to build another. In contacting the builder myself to see what the bare minimum to get work started, if I were to donate my alto sax to be converted, he told me it would be about $15,000 to do all the work needed to convert an instrument to the one-handed machanism, and that the $40,000 estimate was a prototyping estimate for applying the mechanism to another instrument. > I'm curious if anyone knows of any grants or organisations devoted to helping disabled musicians or persons with disabilities that would be able to help with the cost of having my saxophone converted to the one-handed mechanism. > > > Recent Activity: > > - New Members 2 > - New Files 1 > > Visit Your Group Start a New Topic > Got a Mouthpiece Work question? Send it to MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com > > Visit the site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MouthpieceWork to see the > Files, Photos and Bookmarks relating to Mouthpiece Work. > > To see and modify your groups, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups > [image: Yahoo! Groups] > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > . > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/> > > >
FROM: kwbradbury (Keith Bradbury)
SUBJECT: Re: OT: financial assistance
The Link the Ed provided shows a picture of the two alto saxes that Daniel mentioned. There have been others of the years, but these two are the state-of the art. I saw David Nabb's Sax in January at the Navy Sax Symposium. The mechanism was astounding. Sorry I do not know anything about how to get a grant.
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From: Ed Zentera <edzentera@...>
To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, February 6, 2010 6:25:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MouthpieceWork] OT: financial assistance
Here's one program I'm aware of (and encourage others to donate to): http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Daniel Stover <kasparguy@hotmail. com> wrote:
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>Hello to the list. I'm not sure if I will have any luck in this endeavor, but I thought if anywhere would be a good place to start, some of the lists I'm a member of would be the best places, with the wide knowledge and broad range of careers everyone is in.
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> In July 2008, I suffered a severe hemrrhagic stroke which has left me unable to use my left hand/arm at all. In early 2009 I found a group headed by a saxophone professor in a similar situation as myself founded to try to get adapted instruments into the hands of disabled musician like me. the goups is called the One-handed winds project(onehandwinds. unk.edu)
> This saxophone rofessor helped develope a mechanism to allow the sax to be played with only the right hand. unfortunately, there are, to my knowledge, only two such instruments in existence.; the one he plays and one on loan to a saxophone student mentioned on the project's page. Last Spring, the founder was kind enough to let me try a modified recorder by Marten Visser. after a month of struggling with the mechanism and fingering chart, I was unable to even play simple scales with any accuracy and returned the instrument before my year-long rental contract began. In contacting him again to see if there had been any progress in making more saxophones available, He informed me that the builder gave him an estimate of $40,000 to build another. In contacting the builder myself to see what the bare minimum to get work started, if I were to donate my alto sax to be converted, he told me it would be about $15,000 to do all the work needed to convert
an instrument to the one-handed machanism, and that the $40,000 estimate was a prototyping estimate for applying the mechanism to another instrument.
> I'm curious if anyone knows of any grants or organisations devoted to helping disabled musicians or persons with disabilities that would be able to help with the cost of having my saxophone converted to the one-handed mechanism.
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FROM: klarinet_18 (Daniel Stover)
SUBJECT: Re: OT: financial assistance
Hmm.. strange... somehow it appears much of my original post didn't make it... seemingly formattin problem or something.. but yes.. the One-handed winds project you linked was the project I mentioned in my post.
Unfortunately, David said there has not been any progress in getting another saxophone produced for the project, due to the cost involved in all the alterations required ( moving the tone holes on the bell to the left side
of the horn to make room for the toggle keys. I want to have my sax fitted with the mechanism because as it is I have a good 40+ hours a week wasted doing nothing when I could be *practicing*!!
Daniel
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From: edzentera@...
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:25:56 -0500
Subject: Re: [MouthpieceWork] OT: financial assistance
Here's one program I'm aware of (and encourage others to donate to): http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/
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FROM: klarinet_18 (Daniel Stover)
SUBJECT: Re: OT: financial assistance
Yes, I've not seen the mechanism in person, there is also a youtube
video of David playing the instrument in recital. It is aazing the
amount of technique capable on a one-handed instrument.
When I first looked at the PDF I thought the instrument must rquire
countless hours of memorizing finger patterns, but upon looking at the
fingering chart, I can see patterns that mirror fingerings on a
traditional saxophone and would make being able to play music at sight
easier than I initially thought.
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From: kwbradbury@...
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:27:47 -0800
Subject: Re: [MouthpieceWork] OT: financial assistance
The Link the Ed provided shows a picture of the two alto saxes that Daniel mentioned. There have been others of the years, but these two are the state-of the art. I saw David Nabb's Sax in January at the Navy Sax Symposium. The mechanism was astounding. Sorry I do not know anything about how to get a grant.
From: Ed Zentera <edzentera@...>
To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, February 6, 2010 6:25:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MouthpieceWork] OT: financial assistance
Here's one program I'm aware of (and encourage others to donate to): http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Daniel Stover <kasparguy@hotmail. com> wrote:
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