Tenor Ninja
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I've been playing tenor sax since a week before 6th grade (Im a junior in HS now) and I have a student model unison from the 6003 series. I like it and all, but sometimes I get to play this really old, professional tenor the school has, and Its so much better I nicknamed it Epic Saxophone, and whenever I go to my dads friends house and he lets me play one of his pro's I never want to put it down. I want to go into music in college (a double major in jazz and genetics) and I am recording with my dad for a CD he's doing (he's a jazz musician) and I've been considering auditioning for some bands around my area, but I think I would be better equipped with a pro model.
My mom laughed in my face when I asked about it. My first tenor got kicked down the bleachers at a basketball game by a clumsy trombonist and my mother blames me for the fact that it literally broke in half (it fell quite a ways and I was crying when she exchanged it for my new one). Also I once borrowed a school sax for a talent show and while it was back stage and I was in the audience waiting one of my friends played it and dropped it, then later in the show someone put a super heavy piece of equipment on the same table and it collapsed, saxophone and all and my band teacher made my mom pay for it. So she doesn't trust me with such an expensive saxophone and calls me the Saxophone Killer EVEN THOUGH I take super good care of all my instruments (I have like 13), when I had my original sax (named Sammy) I used to spend like 10 minutes after class polishing and cleaning it before I tucked it in with the polishing cloth. I nickname all my instruments and treat them like small children, my friends make fun of me, but I love my babies with a passion.
I KNOW that its not necessary for me to get a pro model, but It would be AMAZING. How can I convince my mom to SERIOUSLY consider it. (I don't live with my dad and he could barley afford to keep up the payments for my unison btw so I cant ask him even though he would probably do it)
My mom laughed in my face when I asked about it. My first tenor got kicked down the bleachers at a basketball game by a clumsy trombonist and my mother blames me for the fact that it literally broke in half (it fell quite a ways and I was crying when she exchanged it for my new one). Also I once borrowed a school sax for a talent show and while it was back stage and I was in the audience waiting one of my friends played it and dropped it, then later in the show someone put a super heavy piece of equipment on the same table and it collapsed, saxophone and all and my band teacher made my mom pay for it. So she doesn't trust me with such an expensive saxophone and calls me the Saxophone Killer EVEN THOUGH I take super good care of all my instruments (I have like 13), when I had my original sax (named Sammy) I used to spend like 10 minutes after class polishing and cleaning it before I tucked it in with the polishing cloth. I nickname all my instruments and treat them like small children, my friends make fun of me, but I love my babies with a passion.
I KNOW that its not necessary for me to get a pro model, but It would be AMAZING. How can I convince my mom to SERIOUSLY consider it. (I don't live with my dad and he could barley afford to keep up the payments for my unison btw so I cant ask him even though he would probably do it)