Jay Byrnes promotes Yanagisawa in Australia.
Pictured below is Jay Byrnes the now famous player from the UK exposing the magnificent sounds to Australian audiences using his B992 and S992 Baritone and Soprano saxes both fitted with silver necks.
Now residing in Sydney Jay is regularly performing with such groups as “The Enormous Horns”, “Wonderbrass”, “Sax Summit” and “Blow Big Band” as well as working on many smaller ventures with musicians Eduoard Bronson, Harry White and Alana Blackburn.
Jay Byrnes an international performer and educator in both Classical and Commercial music has performed in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Holland and Slovenia. After completing his Bachelor of Music Degree at the “Sydney Conservatorium” Jay spent 2 years performing, teaching and lecturing throughout Europe at such venues as The Long Acre(London West End) Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester), Royal Scottish College of Music (Edinburgh), Sweedlink Conservatory (Amsterdam), Torino Town Hall (Torino, Italy), Saxophone World Congress (Slovenia), Gap Cathedral (Gap, France) along with many others.
Wagga Jazz Festival 2006
Don Hobbs at the Wagga Jazz Festival 2006, making sounds on his T992 Bronze Engraved Yanagisawa Tenor Saxophone, which confuses everybody into thinking its easy 
A Recent visit to Yanagisawa
Nobu Yanagisawa San proudly with an array of Yanagisawa Saxophones
Pictured above Sakurai San proudly shows Don Hobbs, the
Historical array of Yanagisawa saxophones during a recent visit to the factory.
Right to left: Sakurai San, Kurata San, Yasukawa San, President of Dolce and Nobu Yanagisawa San.
Ralph Franke uses Yanagisawa Saxophones
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“Thanks for the wonderful Yanigasawa curved soprano – it plays beautifully. I am having great results with the Yani tenor as well – spotless intonation from the bottom to the top of the horn with power to boot. I don’t have to think about the horn at all and can just concentrate on the music. |
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May Jazz Festival - MelbourneReceiving a top billing in the May Jazz Festival in Melbourne at Hamer Hall, the Yanagisawa A9937 alto sax, produced the most astonishing, astounding, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, startling, Marvelleous, miraculous, surprising, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, staggering adrenaline-invoking sounds one has ever heard from any saxophone. Whilst on the subject of superlatives - did I mention that Graeme Lyall was the creator of this magic. Clearly a world leader on saxophones. |
There'll always be an England, and England will be free
Now Snakes got his Yanis, just like you and me.
Also in England the best players play Yanagisawa Saxophones. The above pictures show Snake Davis mesmerizing his audience with his array of A992, SC902 and T992 Yanagisawa Saxophones (which incidentally I play also (ed.))
Yanagisawa 9937 Saxophone
Wow! Have you ever seen anything like this in your life before. Even though there is no sound or wave file attached to this picture you can just about hear it play. Not only is the Yanagisawa 9937 Saxophone the most beautiful saxophone you have ever seen, but it plays even better than it looks. Many have tried to copy the brilliance of the Yanagisawa saxophones but no one has even come close in my opinion. The sound simply jumps out of this instrument which plays as brilliantly as it looks and that's an understatement. |  |
New Clarinets . . .
Eltham Woodwind and Brass have always tried to keep up with the times and are proud to announce the introduction of a new line of instruments into their range called the “Ecole”.
Presently the only instruments which have passed the meticulous criteria required to be included in this range are two clarinets namely the Ecole and the Ecole Professional.
The Ecole Pro has surpassed our wildest expectations in terms of customer acceptance both wholesale and retail. We are working on other similar products at this time.
13th Malvern Scout Reunion - 9th and 10th of October
The photo avbove shows from from left to right top down, the peer group in Don's era.
Ron Clapham and Geoff Aldrich,
...........*, Max Bladin, Ingram Jameson, Rob Mc Culloch, Rob Lewis, Ian Gale
John Schiller, Ray Leeton Rex Shurman, Col Lewis, Tom Schiller, Rob Gale
Don Grant, John Richies, Don Hobbs
* Please advise a name if you recognise yourself.
The weekend marked the 75th aniversary of the 13th Malvern G. W. S. Anderson Scout Group. Don Hobbs Managing Director of Eltham Woodwind (Importing) Pty Ltd spent much of his formative years in this wonderful fraternity, which today, is flourishing and going well.
800 former members of the 13th Malvern Group were found and the numbers responding were so large as to require the reunion to be broken into two reunions, one pre and one post 1970.
These once Scouts went on to be Doctors, Surgeons, Architects, Engineers, Directors and some of whom have been decorated with the highest awards Australia can bestow.
24/08/2004 New The Sound Clarinet range
The Sound Clarinet is now extended to include the ECOLE range, which include the professional version allowing the very attractive pricing to embrace a much larger section of the student fraternity.
14/10/2003 New Getzen 3050 Custom Trumpet
Scott Baker playing his new 3052 Custom Trumpet
9/10/2003 New Yanagisawa.
This is the famous Brian Sullivan playing his brand new S992 Yanagisawa bronze soprano saxophone. All the neighbours have now left and he is the only one in the street (so large is the sound coming from this fine instrument)
20/1/2003 Updates to our range of bags and covers.
We have extensively updated the gig bag range with images for your perusal. They certainly offer that vital extra protection to your valuable intrument.
The band performed at Wagga Jazz Festival, and the pictures show the group in full stampede mode, consisting of Don Hobbs Clarinet, Chris Ellis Vibraphone, Margie Fullerton Piano, Tony Fullerton Bass, Dick Whitford Guitar, and the famous Marshal Green Drums. We have tapes of the performance but they are not reddily available at this time.
13/8/2002 New ‘The Sound’ Trumpet
We are continually asked to broaden our range of product under The Sound brand name. We have added a Trumpet to the range.
1/7/2002 Site Re-design
In an effort to make the site load as quickly as possible for our dial-up users, we are removing all of the graphic navigation. As well, we are making the site fully XHTML 1.0 compliant and extensive use of cascading style sheet.
30/1/2002 New model Oboe
In the quest for better and improved instruments The Sound oboe has been upgraded. The latest shipment arriving about now is of this new model and we are pleased to offer such a fine instrument for a remarkably small price.
14/01/2002 A theme band playing the music of Benny Goodman for the Enthusiasts
NOSTALGIC GOODMAN BAND performing at:
- The Halls Gap Jazz Festival 9/10/11th February
- The Eltham Jazz Festival 24th February (see Web Specials)
- The Inverloch Jazz Festival Long week end early March
12/01. Added a search engine facility for the site. It should now be easier to locate exactly what you are after.
11/01. Very recently the some of the staff of Eltham Woodwind and Brass visited factories associated with the manufacture of The Sound instruments in Europe. Also, a most pleasant visit to the MARCA reed factory at which we were guided from cane fields, drying sheds, through the computer controlled manufacturing processes, which provide the world with one of the most reliable reeds available, for the woodwinds.
Pictured below Franco Gucinni proudly showing the cut cane in storage where it remains for years prior to manufacture into the fine MARCA reeds.
Also at another factory, the critical left hand F4 keys being fitted to precice tolerances, so necessary in producing the outstanding wooden, third octave, The Sound Oboe.
22/10/01. Added an Otto Link and Meyer pages.
5/10/01. Added Holton pages.
3/10/01. Added a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Expect the Holton range soon.
27/08/01. Added the Vito product range.
23/08/01. Added The Sound Alto Flute to our extensive house brand range. Updates to the Specials page and other minor editing. Expect the Vito range to be added very soon.
9/06/01. The Edwards Concept has been added to the range.
Changes to the Product Selection page.
6/06/01. The $ound professional flute has been added to the range.
23/05/01. Added details of the Getzen Valve trombone to site. Also updated the list of available pre-loved musical instruments.
22/05/01. Added the this page. Here we hope to showcase items that will have general interest value or even the odd piece of gossip.
21/05/01. Information on the Getzen product range has been added to the site. We trust you will find this as informative and useful, as feedback indicates, as is the rest of the site.
Meet the stars . Trinity college (London) highest award winners for 2000 , the silver medal , (or in their case medals!) all playing Yanagisawas too!.
... And all that jazz
The outlaws didn't rob from the rich, but they did give to the poor jazz starved Scotch Collegians in the '47/'48 era. Don Hobbs and David Pincus played flutes whilst David Corbet a flute player added authenticity to the jazz feel with a trumpet he borrowed from the school.
Complete article is available at the Scotch College web site.
