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Marcus Miller and David Sanborn... playing plastic instruments.


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[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='492399' date='May 19 2009, 02:43 PM']Didn't those Casio guitars and MIDI horns cost a small fortune back in the '80s?

If they'd grabbed instruments from a school's music department it would've proved their point a bit better.[/quote]

We got given one a while ago, it was such a piece of trash that we left it inside an old piano and no one has touched it in about 6 or 7 years.

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[quote name='bassace' post='492627' date='May 19 2009, 07:44 PM']Er, I don't think it was Charlie Parker but Ornette Coleman who played a plastic sax. But that was a 'proper' plastic sax - as opposed to a toy.[/quote]

And on the third day, the Lord said; 'thou shalt not argue with Marcus Miller!!' :)

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[quote name='liamcapleton' post='492837' date='May 20 2009, 12:00 AM']And on the third day, the Lord said; 'thou shalt not argue with Marcus Miller!!' :)[/quote]

My apologies. Charlie Parker sold his usual alto just befor a concert to buy drugs. Dizzy and some other band members scoured the neigbourhood to buy him a new new sax. The only one they could find was a Grafton plastic sax. He played the concert and Ornette Coleman followed later.

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[quote name='bassace' post='492955' date='May 20 2009, 08:48 AM']My apologies. Charlie Parker sold his usual alto just befor a concert to buy drugs. Dizzy and some other band members scoured the neigbourhood to buy him a new new sax. The only one they could find was a Grafton plastic sax. He played the concert and Ornette Coleman followed later.[/quote]



The Grafton is a perfectly fine sax in the right hands, especially if it's been coated with Charlie Parker's mojo :)
It was an attempt to make a sax using what was then state of the art materials. I wonder if we could get Status to try .. Now that would be a horn ...

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