So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.
Voice is my instrument.
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!