Instrument Name: Saxophone
Key: Eb or Bb
Family: Woodwind
Sound production: A reed vibrates quickly against the mouthpiece, opening and closing the pipe hundreds of times a second.
First Invented: The saxophone was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax in Paris in the 1840s. He was trying to make a woodwind instrument that would have the projection of a brass instrument, in order to bridge the gap between the two sections in military bands. Sax also developed the modern bass clarinet.
Ancestors: Clarinet, chalumeau.
Materials: Brass (although this doesn’t make it a brass instrument!)
Range: 2.5 octaves.
Famous Saxophonists: Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Kenny G, Leo Pellegrino, Jess Gillam, Amy Dickson.
Famous Sax Makers: Yamaha, Selmer, Yanagisawa, P Mauriat, Trevor James.
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