Full-Stack Developer. Saxophone Mouthpiece Designer.https://www.kevindanenberg.com/https://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2026/10/october-2026/https://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2026/10/october-2026/What I'm Working On Getting this site up and running. Fall cleanup around the house, and whatever I can get done before the cold sets in. Trying to finish off the film in four two cameras. Pulling overtime on a stealth startup. What I'm Watching Nothing after finishing Ted Lasso, season 4. What I'm Listening To WDR Big Band Sonny Stitt Kenny Werner Long Term Goals More consistent practice on ...Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTNowKevin Danenberghttps://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2026/10/site-relaunch/https://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2026/10/site-relaunch/After a long hiatus, I finally brought my personal website back to the internet. This time, no WordPress, no Drupal. I wanted to use a bare, static site generator. No admin UI. No continuous march of plugin updates. Just a repository of text files. I'm using Astro.js, which is far more advanced than generators I've used in the past in that you can seamlessly integrate with UI frameworks like React ...Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTJournalKevin Danenberghttps://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2011/09/altissimo-fingerings-for-tenor-saxophone/https://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2011/09/altissimo-fingerings-for-tenor-saxophone/I’ve been interested in the altissimo register since high school when I first heard Tower of Power recordings featuring Lenny Pickett. There are so many sources of information out there for people who want to learn to play altissimo (see below for a few useful links). In this post, I want to share the set of fingerings that I’ve found most useful in my own tenor playing. I favor fingerings that ...Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTReferencealtissimoLenny PickettNorbert Stacheltenor saxophonefingering chartSigurd RascherKevin Danenberghttps://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2007/11/how-to-fix-a-compressed-neck-cork/https://www.kevindanenberg.com/blog/2007/11/how-to-fix-a-compressed-neck-cork/Be sure to tape up the lacquered part of your neck near the cork with a good insulator! Otherwise, the steam could crack and peel your lacquer. I learned that the hard way with my Yanagisawa S991. Thanks to Pete Thomas’s Saxophone Repairs page, I learned how to fix something that’s peeved me for decades! I thought I’d post it here for any of you saxophonists who are tired of wrapping paper around ...Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTTechnicalsaxophone repairsaxophoneKevin Danenberg