Contacts

C sax shop https://aquilasax.3dcartstores.com/C-ten

For Guitars (C) Try Motone Music in Beijing.
They custom make electric guitars to order.
You specify the hardware, they make the body and set up.
Resident guitar player checks quality and playtests.
http://www.motone-music.com/

Speaking of guitars, very proud of my son's latest
album debut, made the top 4o in NZ and one song
features him playing a Motone guitar. (no sax)
He usually drums with an energetic rock style in
original compositions. Go Logan! Checkit out at: www.dieselphoenix.com

USEFUL LINKS

Saxophones hadn't changed much for 100 years
until Jim Shmidt's innovation!
For his all new C sax: Contralto! check out:
http://cvip.fresno.com/~js210/contra.html

To hear vintage C melody's playing JAZZ,
check out: http://www.cmelodysax.co.uk/

Scott Robinson plays a 1918 C mel exclusively on his 1999 album,
"Melody from the sky". http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,485978,00.html
Scotts latest album "Nucleus" also has one C mel track, very different from Melody from the sky. I'd call it "Esoteric" or spacey. Scott says there are more to come!

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/scottrobinsonjulianthayer

Rudy Weidoef is credited with begining the C mel craze in the 20s
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,641995,00.html

For a modern style in C try "just maybe" by Natha n Haines
http://myspace.com/nathanhaines
Nathan's latest album "Sound travels" is listed as Rap/hip hop.
A marketing blunder in my book as it has no rap and little relationship to
hip hop. More spacey and esoteric to me!

Chip Shelton's latest "smooth" CD, "Imbued with memories", f
eatures C flute, C tenor sax and C soprano sax. Summit records.
https://aquilasax.3dcartstores.com/CD-Imbued-with-Memories-Chip-Shelton_p_25-132.html

For free advice about vintage C melody's try
the forum: http://boards.eesite.com/board.cgi?boardset=cmelody

For new pad sets try Music Medic: http://www.musicmedic.com/catalog/products/pad-s25-125-x.html
Highly recomended for service!

Check out whats on THE JAZZ NETWORK:http://thejazznetwork.ning.com/events/event/show?id=1974321%3AEvent%3A154222&xgi=5q6sEyc

Nathan Haines plays modern jazz, hip hop etc. on his album Squire for Hire.
http://www.amazon.com/Squire-Hire-Nathan-Haines/dp/B0000AW0TY

For those interested in ART, here is a link to the site of a very talented New Zealand artist who paints graphic, "super realism" architecture. http://www.richardshanksart.com/

For a C mel site in Germany: http/www.cmelody.de