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  1. 22 hours ago, Grem said:

    You can see he has some sort of Pizeo mic hooked up close to the reed. Don't kow if it's on it though.

    The one I used had something I called "Stickum", and that was a long time ago. I tried a sax that had a piezo pickup drilled into the neck, and although it was a good make sax, I really didn't like the way the sax responded.

    I was playing the same model sax at the time, but it had much better intonation, and a greater variety of tones from subtone to overblown distortion. The varitone sax couldn't be overblown for that nasty sound that works so well in the blues. I don't know if the pickup was to blame or not. The early Mark VI saxes have a reputation for being better, so it could have been just a lame horn.

    Like this one https://www.robertoswinds.com/products/vintage-selmer-mark-vi-varitone-tenor-saxophone-w-original-amp-ser-143032-jp

    about the pickup   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varitone

     

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  2. 21 hours ago, Grem said:

    Great video of them in thier heyday. I didn't realize the sax player used a wah-wah!!

    Back in the day, I had a pickup that attached to my reed and connected it to both an octave splitter (added a lower octave) and a wah pedal.

    It was a lot of fun, but a bit of a PITA. The pickup attached to the reed by some sticky, putty like substance, that became very difficult to find.

     

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