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Report from me, Sone, who loves jazz piano I wish I could play the jazz piano. Impossible. Could I play any as such? Then I started to play―
The tenor sax. It requires the same fingering as the one for a recorder which I played in my elementary school days. This is what I can play! I was too optimistic, I think by now. Then, the reason why I chose the tenor sax was―
	Mr. Johnny Griffin himself. I was fascinated by his speedy, comfortable sound.
What I bought was a SELMER Reference36 tenor sax. This is a reproduced model of the 1936 original with balance action. At first, I played a tenor sax of YANAGISAWA, the only Japanese maker specialized in saxophones. But later on, a used SELMER saxophone was offered to me, and I loved its thick sound and the way of its sound coming out en masse. So I purchased it.
	Of course, I could not play the sax at first as a beginner and there was no place to play. Therefore, I started to take regular lessons at a school. I have been learning the basic method there, while I have changed my rubber mouthpiece to a metallic one. With the metallic mouthpiece, my sax sound has become clearer and smoother while it has become a little more difficult for me to play the sax.
This mouthpiece is difficult to use because the tone changes depending on how deeply it is inserted. (I marked the mouthpiece with a pencil!)
	However, the most interesting is the reed. To my surprise, only this one reed can change the tone of the sax dramatically. I usually use a soft reed. But when I dared to use a harder reed, I was able to play the sax as much as possible though it was a little hard to respire while playing. I hope I will become an advanced sax player before long who may be in a dilemma as to which reed to choose.
Besides, when I went to a used musical instruments shop to sell my old YANAGISAWA tenor sax, I came across a flight case. An authentic black case looks stylish, but now I use this flight case because of its convenience. It is light and convenient to carry around. Will my technique be improved? I am worried but simultaneously looking forward to my improvement. When I become an advanced player, I will report to you again. Before that, however, I am afraid my boss will get angry with me saying, "Do your work!" Since I have a chance to listen to acoustic sound, I am planning to review my audio set.

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