Sounds Like Now
A blog by saxophonist Brian Sacawa
January 11, 2010 at 8:14 pm
· Filed under Blog: Winter 09, Zodiac
For the Aries melody (i.e. “The Ram,” though not to be confused with this Ram) Erik wanted me to produce some ram’s horn, or shofar, sounds. So I watched this video to learn the four traditional shofar calls—Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, and Tekiah Gedolah—and then learned how to make those sounds on the alto saxophone by playing without the mouthpiece. Witness the fruits of my labor:
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Hey Brian, I like that! The graphics funny. Just read the interview you did that talked about the A 446.
Rich wrote @ January 11th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
you did a great job replicating a shofar, but there’s just something about bone that brass can’t recreate.
For more information about Shofar and other Holy Temple instruments.
We have three websites
1) Shofar Sounders WebPage
http://shofar221.com
2) Joint Effort with Michael Chusid, an expert Shofar sounder and commentator
http://www.hearingshofar.com
3) Shofar WebPage
http://shofar-sounders.com
If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to ask.
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