Bb saxophone

multiphonic D#4, F5, C#6 & E#6

multiphonics     Multiphonic 1 Multiphonic 2 Multiphonic 3 Multiphonic 4 Multiphonic 5 Multiphonic 6 Multiphonic 7 Multiphonic 8

Impedance

Fingering a key depressed a key not depressed a hole covered a hole uncovered a part of the mechanism that is not normally touched Details in fingering legend. Acoustic schematic a closed tone hole an open tone hole Non-specialist introduction to acoustic impedance Non-specialist introduction to saxophone acoustics Notes are the written pitch. Frequencies are the sounding frequency, for Bb saxophone. Unless otherwise stated, the impedance spectrum is for a Bb saxophone.

Here, the D#4 may be considered as produced by a variant of the E4 fingering, with cross fingering to make it flatter. The F5 may be considered as a peculiar perturbation fingering for G5, with cross fingering and a poorly placed register key. It is difficult to explain the higher notes by such simplistic means: once we are at or above the cut-off frequency, the whole bore is involved.

Sound

Sound spectrum of a Bb saxophone played using fingering for the multiphonic D#4, F5, C#6 and E#6 .
For more explanation, see Introduction to saxophone acoustics

Sound Clip

You can hear the multiphonic D#4, F5, C#6 and E#6 played.