Talk:Tenor saxophone

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Merry Christmas, can any one help Me with a serial Number and Model of a Yanigasawa Tenor , Named Prima T40 serial Number 00977864, I am exshaulsted trying to find out something about this Horn. I will say that it Play's equally as well as My 74 Mark 6 Selmer...thank You Rocco,,,,roccosam@zoominternet.net

Maybe ask at http://forum.saxontheweb.net/ or http://forumofthesaxes.myfreeforum.org/ ¦ Reisio 08:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


Is there a source on this paragraph?

Approximately 98% of all student saxophonists start learning the instrument using the alto saxophone. Approximately 10% of student saxophonists later learn to play the tenor.

Thanks 68.118.32.126 20:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Agree with this query. I suggest the article says "Virtually all students learn to play on the alto saxophone, of whom about ten per cent switch to tenor as their principal instrument" or something similar. Guy 23:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I disagree strongly. I first learned to play on the tenor (im still playing tenor), and so has all of the altos in my band. Now, i don't really think that we're the 10% people are talking about, because there are a lot of saxophonists in the world. Just my opinion.

My browser doesn't show the flat sign on B-flat. I'm sure many millions of other browsers have the same problem. We don't all have the same font set as the original author. Why not write it as Bb or simply B-flat? jojo 09:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

It works on Internet Explorer and Firefox: users able to work with one of these commonplace browsers will be in the great majority. Nothing is universal. Guy 16:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
My browser doesn't show the flat signs and I'm using the latest version of IE with a fairly new PC. Obviously we can't just change it to 'Bb' or 'B flat' on this article alone as there are thousands of music related pages which use the same sign, but it is irritating. Mickthefish 12:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Corrections needed.

The article had multiple wrong 'facts' and expressed far too many individual opinions, some of which were just plain wrong. I've corrected as many of these as I can and generally 'improved' it. Also, the part about the 'American saxophone craze' and C melody saxes is self contradictory - it says the C melody sax is now obsolete and manufacture ceased in 1929, but then goes on to say this 'craze' goes right up to 2007! Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me about this alleged 'craze' could sort this out. Mickthefish 12:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] range image

The image of the note range is for the alto sax, not the tenor. Click on the image to verify this error. dae, 3 june 2007

...because they have the same range. ¦ Reisio 01:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Please fix the flat sign to show b instead of that square shape

[edit] range

If I am not mistaken (and I'm pretty sure I'm not) the tenor sax can go as high as a F#. However, the note range says F Natural. Please verify this, or change it.24.5.223.164 03:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

It "can go" much higher than that (as the saxophone article details), but high F♮ is the highest note the vast majority of tenor saxophonists ever play, both because the vast majority of tenor saxophones do not have an extra key to make playing F# (or any other higher note) easier, and because the vast majority of instructional literature — including fingering charts — list F♮ as the highest. ¦ Reisio 05:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major ninth??

Looks like it is in B♭ to me, not D. Is there a reason for this? —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:16 18 February 2008 (UTC)