The Saxophone From An Odd Angle
The saxophone is an instruments invented by the belgish inventor A. Sax in the 1800`s , and it sounds that way too. It is an woodwind instrument made of brass, how is that possible? It is not t(h)ree but ONE that blows. The other two is just listening. It is so that everyone that is not playing sax, as it is called, is very jealouse of the beautiful sound coming out,and therefore often pretends they hate saxophone and so-called "sax music". Something that recognizes saxophonists is that they have 12 or 14 fingers. The ones with 14 plays 1.pitch and the ones with12, 2.pitch. Those with only 10, could as most people understand what pitch they are playing. (They are often degraded to obo or trombone) It is so that more fingers gives better playing. Early in the 1900`s a family in Paris got a baby with 16 fingers. The music society in Paris on that time looked forward to a saxophonist of world class, but the boy died in a bicycle accident before he became old enough to play. He got his head into the bicycle weel and broke his neck. How is it possible!! The world missed something huge.
It has to be mentioned that the saxophone is not an improvement of the clarinet, as many thinks. The clarinet was such an wonderful instrument and had such a fine tone that everyone wanted to play it, and this lead to a lack of clarinets. Suddenly invented a mediocre(nice said) 3. clarinetist the saxophone, which anyone not that skilled clarinetists could use to get a little better status. But it happened to be so that this status not exactly got any better....This is one of the reasons for the saxophonists to play so loud for over play the clarinets because they are just a bit jealouse that the saxophonists themselves did not get the best instrument.
The odd bend the saxophone has, is made from a banana bender who did not see the difference of an saxophone and a banana(very understandable) and bent the saxophone instead of the banana.(It is therefor some bananas are straight). This gene has been transferred from saxophone to saxophone, unfortunately. The poor woodwind instrument(no, it is made of brass though) has been invalid just due to one single mutation.