Martin Williams

Its my turn now, nice to meet y'all.

Born a mere 20 years ago, Im a young'un. I started off in music in the fourth grade playing the clarinet, because the director wouldnt let me play sax till the next year. In fifth grade I started playing my main axe, the sax on a Bundy II alto that leaked like a seive. Eventually we got it fixed and it was great then on. I played that and clarinet both regularly till 8th grade when I first started tenor sax also.

Also in 8th grade I started racing(bicycles) and have also kept with that, and ride for THE Ohio State University Buckeyes now.

Freshman year I started alot of instruments, all of which I still play regularly. I started bari and soprano sax, and added flute to my practice rountines. It just kinda kept that way for a while until junior year.

Junior year I decided for sure I wanted to go to THE Ohio State to sudy Music education, and was looking into the bands and everything there and became aware that the marching band was all brass. So it was time to learn trumpet. I started lessons on it, making it the only instrument I ever took lessons on.

After I graduated I started playing flugel with the trumpet when I got my Yammie flugel in a pawn shop for 50 bucks. I studied music with Dr. Hill at Ohio State for a year, but wasnt enjoying myself doin the classical solo literature we had to do, so I dropped he music major, and switched to history where I could still play in the jazz bands and marching bands.

So thats about it, Im a history and education major, with a minor in music theory, performance and jazz studies. I ride for the Ohio State cycling team, play in the marching and athletic bands, the Jazz combo and the jazz labs. I also play with, arrange for, and direct the band for the African American Voices Choir, and play in a few student local bands. I work in a muisc store teaching sax, clarinet, flute, and trumpet lessons, and in a campus dining hall called burritos noches and in the University Archives.

Instruments:
Piccolo: Gemeinhardt Roy Seaman Signature Piccolo
Flute: Muramatsu DS
Clarinetes: Buffet R13 Greenline, and a Metal King Silversonic
Soprano sax: Yanagisawa S992
Alto saxes: '59 King Super 20 Silver Sonic, and a Julius Keilwerth SX90 in black nickel
Tenor saxes: '49 Buescher 400 Top Hat and Cane, and a Yamaha YTS 62II
Bari saxes: '62 The Martin Committee "Official Music Man Model" and a Weltklang Low A bari(keilwerth made horn with Selmer keywork, very nice)
Bass sax: '29 Buescher true Tone
Trumpets: Yamaha YTR 2320, King Tempo 600, '25 Conn 22B, and two Getzen Capri 590s(one is the University's though)
Flugelhorns: Yamaha YFH 231S, and a Getzen Capri(school horn)

I also have an extremely old King Trombone(serial number is 937, does anyone know where I can find a serial number chart???) that I modified the slide for so its pretty cool.

And for mouthpieces, I have to many(boxes and boxes!!!!) but its somewhere around 350 mouthpieces for my various horns

Later y'all

Martin Williams

definitely, sax all the way!

Eclipsehornplayer

Martin,

Go to =====> http://www.hnwhite.com/second%20page.htm

That trombone is quite old...!

WordRider

Welcome Martin Williams! Enjoy thy stay!

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Liad Bar-EL

Hi Martin,

As you know that the trumpet has its own characteristics, its own demands and its own unique sound to express that part of you that no other instrument can. In other words it is fitting that the trumpet to make a musical "declaration" of which a sax or a flute would be hard put to do.

Enjoy your stay in TM,

Liad

Foxytrpt

Sax?