Bb tenor saxophone
E6
| Acoustics of the saxophone |
Bb tenor saxophone |
E6 |
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Fingering Acoustic schematic Non-specialist introduction
to acoustic impedance Notes are the written pitch. |
This curve is qualitatively similar to that for C4 and G5 in the registers below, although the first two peaks
have been weakened and shifted by the speaker key and left index finger hole
acting as register
holes. See the discussion of the altissimo register on the note C#5.
Sound spectrum
of a Bb saxophone
played using fingering for E6.
For more explanation, see
Introduction to saxophone acoustics
You can hear E6
played.
Alternative Fingering |
Bb saxophone |
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Fingering Acoustic schematic Non-specialist introduction
to acoustic impedance Notes are the written pitch. |
You can hear XX
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 
