Instruments

I heard back from David Temby - the guy who made my soprano sax. He called to say that he received the instrument and that even when he played it, it was out between the octaves. So he's changed the neck and tuned it a bit and it is now in tune.

He strongly recommends that I get a new mouthpiece for it though, which means that I need to head north to the big Melbourne smoke to try it out and make a purchase.

Exciting times - and I feel a bit relieved to know that it's not just that I'm a really crap player that I was so far out of tune.

I tried Nick Mollison's French Horn the other day too. Very cool. He looked very perturbed when I took to playing it out of the side of my mouth rather than the front. I played a bit of didgeridoo and I play that out of the side of my mouth, and the technique is similar - except meant to come out of the front of the mouth. I, of course can't cope with all this change.

Feeling inspired to learn trumpet now.