Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece and a usually curved conical metal tube, including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sizes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument, properly of the clarinet class, but with a metal tube like a trumpet or horn, invented by Adolphe Sax about 1840.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A single-
reed instrument musical instrument of thewoodwind family, usually made ofbrass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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THE SIMPSONS NETWORK: Can you imagine a television network where Sideshow Bob is beating himself up with rakes or Bleeding Gums Murphy is powerhousing his saxophone from the heavens at any given moment in the day?
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When he plays free-form style, as on "Late Works," his new duet album with guitarist Fred Frith, it's the most extreme avant-garde music you'll hear, combining the furthest-out acoustic screeches and shrieks that an alto saxophone is capable of making with the distortion and random noise that only a guitar-based electronics kit can produce.
Swinging Into November Will Friedwald 2010
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The saxophone is Jazzamoart's fetish, the instrument that appears most often in his work.
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The saxophone is Jazzamoart's fetish, the instrument that appears most often in his work.
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If you ask any parent of a beginning band member what instrument their child plays, they will say "the saxophone," or just "saxophone" -- not "a saxophone."
Doing both at once 2010
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MR: You've even said that you think that the saxophone is an extension of your soul, is that right?
Mike Ragogna: A World Of Sound: Chatting & Improvising With David S. Ware Mike Ragogna 2011
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The vicar would never let our saxophonists bring their instruments into the church; he claimed the saxophone was the devil's instrument and represented the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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MR: You've even said that you think that the saxophone is an extension of your soul, is that right?
Mike Ragogna: A World Of Sound: Chatting & Improvising With David S. Ware Mike Ragogna 2011
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Although West Coast musicians with Mr. Collette's skills commonly moved to New York in search of wider visibility, Collette chose to remain in Los Angeles, where he worked for more than four decades as a first-call saxophone and woodwind specialist.
Buddy Collette, Grammy-nominated saxophonist, dies at 89 Don Heckman 2010
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You had said that there's a great story behind how Kadri Gopalnath started playing saxophone, which is an unusual instrument for classical Indian music.
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