2 comments about Tipbook Saxophone: The Complete Guide.

1. The Tipbook for Saxophone has saved me! As a music eduacation student, this tipbook has been a lifesaver when it comes to needing easy to understand, fast help. Whether it's learning to play, looking to buy, to reeds and mouthpieces, to fingerings, to their history...this book has it all. It's layed out in an easy to read format and even gives you other places to look for more information. I highly recommend this book to any music student or saxophone player!



2. An excellent source of general information about the four most common types of saxophones. The book covers a broad range of areas about saxophones, such as buying a sax, selecting accessories, practicing, etc. Being a tipbook, it presents the basics you need to know without a lot of text background detail. It answered many of the questions I've come up with but had no one to ask. The text format is short paragraphs of 2-4 sentences with many illustrations on each subject. The material is very easy to understand and apply. As a self taught student, I found the book very useful and was glad I ordered it. I was also quite pleased at the price.

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5 comments about Celebrating the Saxophone.

1. Paul Lindemeyer, himself a superb alto and tenor saxophonist, has put together a beautiful coffee-table book which is full of saxophone history and lore. I recommend this book for the most seasoned pro or the enthusiastic beginner. No one who plays the instrument or cares for it should be without a copy.



2. Anyone who knows much about the saxophone will not learn anything more from this book....the novice who knows even less about saxophone performance will know even less. The pictures are terrific.



3. The photos in this book are very nice. However, there's not much to learn from the content. This isn't a "coffee-table" book. It's more of an "end-table" book. A much better book for a little more money is called, I think, "The Sax and Brass Book." It has even better photos, and it also has a big section at the end with the serial numbers through the years of many sax companies and lots of information about what years were weak, when companies sold or moved or burned down, etc.



4. A delightful and fun overview of the history of the saxophone in music, with some wonderful photos. It's not an indepth study - which is part of it's beauty. Anyone can pick it up, open to any page, and enjoy a morsel of saxophone history. The pictures alone are almost worth the price of the book. Enjoy it.



5. A beautifully presented book. As the operator of a small vintage saxophone website, I really appreciate the information given.

   This book is primarily a history from the player's perspective, but it also has some info about the design and manufacture of the horn.

   Few technical or historical errors that I saw. I've seen that he's really tried to research his material -- he was a regular on a few vintage sax discussion boards.

   I wish the book were longer and had more information on the horns themselves!

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