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Pat Posey
Pat Posey (he/they)(born 197is an American musician, educator, and administrator. He is active as a saxophonist, clarinetist, and tubaxist. Early life and education Posey was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia. He attended Louisiana State University, earning a Bachelor of Music degree, and the University of Michigan, earning a Master of Music degree. While at Michigan, he was a saxophone student of Donald Sinta. Performance career Posey performs often as a saxophonist with orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, Santa Barbara Symphony. He has also performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New World Symphony (orchestra), New World Symphony, Long Beach Opera, and is principal saxophonist of the San Bernardino Symphony. Posey performs live with DJs in nightclubs and has appeared on several dance music tracks including Perfect Lovers' "Pat on the Sax" remix of Whitney Weis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubax
The tubax is a modified contrabass saxophone developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim. Although it has the same fingering as the saxophone, Eppelsheim's design reduces the amount of expansion of its conical bore in relation to the length of tubing, resulting in a smaller volume of resonant air column. This allows for it to use a smaller mouthpiece (baritone or bass, instead of a larger contrabass mouthpiece), and more compactly folded tubing. The tubax exists in E♭ contrabass and B♭ or C subcontrabass sizes. Its name is a combination of the words "tuba" and "sax". History Eppelsheim's first conception of the tubax came in 1992 or 1993, while working at Bavarian instrument maker Münchner Blech. Prior to this time, while working in Franz Traut's workshop in Munich, he had spent much time experimenting with bocals and repairing saxophones, and built two experimental instruments. At Münchner Blech he was able to work on contrabass and bass sax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
