Back from a great weekend in South Dakota at Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls. It was a huge 10th anniversary celebration with a band from Saddleback Church Gospel playing, along with Petra and the worship team in Sioux Falls.

We had an amazing time and I loved Pastor Keith, Chris,Terra and all the awesome folks we got to know this past weekend! Hanging with Petra was an added treat since I did a session a long time ago on a praise CD – Petra– The Rocks Cry Out, and had not seen these guys in ages! What an amazing time of celebration and praise!

In the meantime – I got a message from Yamaha and the video is out on the Cryogenic tests we performed on 2 Yamaha Custom Z altos over the past 2 weeks. I was eager to get a listen to the audio and see if the tone did track as different as the saxes felt. We recorded pre-cryo and post-cryo. It seemed to be a huge difference when playing them, but I wanted to hear the difference, or even see how much of it fell on the player’s experience, and how much was going to be evident in the audio.

The video is posted on the Yamaha Winds page on Face Book and I am going to include the link here. I’m not sure if the link will let you hear the clip if you are not signed into FaceBook, but guess we’ll find out soon enough!

I heard a noticeable difference and have had comments that agree. Now, a disclaimer is probably needed here, because I am not nearly as comfortable talking on tape as I am writing or hanging with people in less formal settings. This was a little rough around the edges, but, my talking is probably of less interest than the instrument clips!

Try the link and tell me – Do you hear a difference? What and where? Love to hear your thoughts! There is a post a few days back that I kind of explained what we did here on the BLOG.

Here is the link. For more information on the 20 saxes treated, check out the Yamaha Winds page on Face Book and the Yamaha Winds Blog. Cool things going on these days!!

Yamaha Cryogenic Sax Project Video

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=138453509389

Thanks for watching,

Greg Vail ~ SAXBOY