SIGURD RASCHER Plays The SAXOPHONE: Classical Saxophone- Grand Award + Bonus LP

Sigurd Rascher ?– Plays The Saxophone

THE VINYL :  This beautiful record is lightly played with minimal evidence of spindlewear, and both of the LP surfaces retain all of their original gloss. Bright, undamaged labels (please see photos). The record has been carefully handled.

Side A :  NM  with no marks.

Side B :  EX+ :  present are 2 very short marks- one is a faint hairline, the other is a moderate scratch about .25 inch in length at the end of track B-4 (below). There are no other marks.

I have placed the LP into a protective high density plastic inner sleeve.


THE COVER :  EX+ :  Exceptionally well-stored / laminated / bright colours / sharp corners / no edgewear / partial, light ringwear on the bottom front cover / all of the seams, including the spine, are intact / minor edgewear / no writing, paper loss, stains or dirt.

 

Tracklist :

 The back cover photo provides quite a bit of detail information regarding each track, and Sigurd Rascher as a "Classical Saxophonist".


Wikipedia  provides this information about the gifted and inventive Mr. Rascher :

"Sigurd Rascher was born in Elberfeld, Germany (now part of Wuppertal) where his father, Hans August Rascher (1880–1952), was temporarily stationed as a military physician. His schooling began in Arlesheim, Switzerland and continued in Stuttgart where he graduated from the first Waldorfschule. After having played piano for some time, he decided to study clarinet with Philipp Dreisbach at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart (1928/1929) In an interview, Rascher said, "Obeying necessity, not following my inclination, I started to play saxophone in order to be in a dance band. As I did this for a couple of years, I became more and more unsatisfied. I started to practice furiously and slowly found out that it had more possibilities than was usually thought of."

 "One subject that was of great importance to Raschèr was his tonal concept. He believed that when used in classical music, the saxophone should sound as its inventor, Adolphe Sax, had intended. Upon inventing the instrument, Sax had specified the shape of the interior of the instrument's mouthpiece as being large and round. All saxophone mouthpieces were made in this style until the 1940s, when the advent of big-band jazz made saxophonists experiment with different shapes of mouthpieces to get a louder and edgier sound.

Between 1940 and 1960, it became common for classical saxophonists to use narrow-chamber mouthpieces, which give the instrument a brighter and edgier sound. Whenever he taught or lectured to saxophone players, Raschèr emphasized that the modern mouthpieces were not what Sax had intended, and the sound they produce, while useful to a jazz player who requires a loud penetrating sound, was not appropriate for use in classical music. His students and other disciples felt that the desirable tone for a classical saxophone was a softer, rounder sound - a sound that can only be produced by a mouthpiece with a large, rounded interior (often referred to as an "excavated chamber"). His steadfast and irascible insistence in this area, while nearly all the world's classical saxophonists were moving to narrower mouthpieces (along with saxophones with a non-parabolically expanding bore) and a brighter tone, resulted in quarrels with, and alienation from, the majority of the classical saxophone world. There were other ways in which his playing differed from the majority of classical saxophonists; these included his insistence on using the slap tongue as a pizzicato technique, and his use of fluttertonguing.

By 1970, narrow-chambered mouthpieces had become nearly universally popular, and mouthpiece manufacturers ceased production of large-chambered mouthpieces. This lack of supply meant that Raschèr's students had difficulty finding mouthpieces that would produce the tone they desired. For a period of time the only large-chambered mouthpieces were ones that had been manufactured in the 1920s and 1930s, leading Raschèr students to search pawn shops and other sources of old instruments.

Raschèr responded to this lack of supply by engaging a manufacturer to make a "Sigurd Raschèr brand" mouthpiece, which was simply a virtual duplication of the mouthpieces that had been readily available from American saxophone manufacturers Buescher, Conn and others in the 1920s. The Raschèr mouthpiece is still manufactured today."

The BONUS LP you can see in the photos, is  The Leblanc Fine Arts Saxophone Quartet  on the Coronet Record Label in Stereo 850C-3208.

The Vinyl is EX, and is lightly played with sleevewear from the original paper inner sleeve, but no obvious marks other than that.

It will come in the mailer along with the Sigurd Rascher release.

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RECORD GRADING DESCRIPTION:

THIS RECORD IS SIGHT-GRADED ONLY UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT, ACCORDING TO THESE DEFINITIONS:

SEALED: RECORD IS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC & UNOPENED.

NM-: RECORD HAS LITTLE OR NO INDICATION THAT IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.

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