learning saxophone

sorta been learning to play tenor sax, but i've been really lazy about it. the toughest thing so far seems to be that if you go a while w/o playing that you lose all your breathing/mouth stamina that you've built up. similar to guitar/bass callouses, i guess - once you build them up you have them for a while, but it's painful to get to that point and you have to be consistent about practicing

I need to pick my sax back up. I haven't touched it in years.

still a better deal compared to trumpet, where even taking a couple of days off is noticeable (so i hear)

I remember my trumpetist middle school band teacher saying that when he'd been x-rayed they discovered that his lungs were 3 times the size of normal lungs/

superlungs!

superlungs! ie: BANGING

mod pls change title to: learn to work the saxophone

I bought a student alto on a whim 9 months ago and have been playing it at least 4/7 days a week since then. I'm not a disciplined student, especially since I'm teaching myself. Anyone out there play, or trying to? I'd love some dialogue on the mechanics of this instrument, which I still find the most fun thing in the world even despite making the same mistakes every single day. Embochure, man....