A Recent visit to Yanagisawa
Nobu Yanagisawa San proudly with an array of Yanagisawa Saxophones
Right to left: Sakurai San, Kurata San, Yasukawa San, President of Dolce and Nobu Yanagisawa San.
May Jazz Festival - Melbourne
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Receiving 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. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
3/10/01. Added a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Expect the Holton range soon.
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.
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.
... 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.
