How to Clean a Saxophone

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I am addressing to all of you students in marching band that play Brass Instruments! There comes a time when you will be playing outside in some pretty cold, subfreezing temperatures.  You will be marching around and go to put the instrument up to your mouth.  What do you do if the metal mouthpiece is also "subfreezing"?  Could be a dangerous situation putting freezing metal up to your mouth. At Starving Students we have an answer; Faxx All-Weather Plastic Mouthpieces (https://starving-students-music-supplies.myshopify.com/search?q=faxx+)  Faxx makes copies of popular designs (like Mt Vernon mouthpieces) and produces them faithfully in plastic.  Guess what, plastic...

  If you are a senior (like me) or one of those Starving Music Students, practice and rehearsal is fine, but you need to play out.   I had been out of music for a while and started back up when I was in my 50’s.  I sought out a private instructor for lessons on the saxophone.  I was going to do it right this time.  My teacher said that lessons and practicing was fine but I needed to play out with a group.  I told him I was not ready.  He told me to just jump in.  Talk about a...