Bb tenor saxophone
F6
| Acoustics of the saxophone |
Bb tenor saxophone |
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Fingering Acoustic schematic Non-specialist introduction
to acoustic impedance Notes are the written pitch. |
In the acoustical sense, this note is still in the second register – it plays (normally) at the second peak on the impedance spectrum. This fingering uses a register hole. This causes a leak in the bore that weakens the first impedance peak (although both peaks will play comfortably with different embouchures). Above the second peak, the curve is irregular: see the discussion in cut-off frequency.
Compare with the impedance spectrum for a soprano sax on written F6: same fingering but sounding one octave higher.
Sound spectrum
of a Bb tenor saxophone
played using fingering for F6.
For more explanation, see
Introduction to saxophone acoustics.
You can hear F6
played.
Alternative Fingering |
tenor saxophone |
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Fingering Acoustic schematic Non-specialist introduction
to acoustic impedance Notes are the written pitch. |
You can hear F6
played with alternative fingering.
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Contact:
Joe Wolfe
/ J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au |
a key depressed
a key not depressed
a hole covered 
a hole uncovered
a
part of the mechanism that is not normally touched 
