[SaxMan1947]

Sorry about this but I woke up in the middle of the night with these words rolling around in my head...

Forget Webster. What is your definition of the word "Saxophone"?

OK, I'll start so I can sleep tonight.

Saxophone:
A curious amalgam of brass, cane, leather and pearl. Played by many yet mastered by few,
it can provide a window to the soul for both the performer and the listener.

Thanks for playing. :mrgreen:

GPD

 

[Buck Laughlin]

One of a group of single-reed woodwind instruments ranging from soprano to bass and characterized by a conical metal tube and finger keys.

 

[CooolJazzz]

I don't define the saxophone...It defines me.

 

[SaxMan1947]

One of a group of single-reed woodwind instruments ranging from soprano to bass and characterized by a conical metal tube and finger keys.

Good baseline...N. Webster I believe.

 

[SaxMan1947]

I don't define the saxophone...It defines me.

Very nice - An external orientation.

 

[Buck Laughlin]

Good baseline...N. Webster I believe.

Merriam-Webster, actually. To be honest, I'm just not one for idolatry. To me, a saxophone is an instrument. A saxophone player, though, can use a saxophone to produce something ranging from appallingly horrible to utterly sublime; so I guess in that sense, the instrument is worthy of appreciation.

But I would add that a great saxophone is a tremendous thing to have.

 

[jbtsax]

A lifelong companion that never fails to take my breath away each time it is held and fondled.

 

[saxtek]

Everyone here knows what a saxophone is. There are extremes to the definition of the instrument that sometimes get people to disagree. For example, is Benedikt Eppelsheim's small bore compact Tubax a true contrabass saxophone? Are the novelty "saxophones" from the past, some with no keys, saxophones?
My own opinion is, if it has a relatively large conical bore and it has a single reed, it's a saxophone.

 

[stormott77]

What is Saxophone??

 

[MyMartinTenor]

I don't define the saxophone...It defines me.

If this was meant to be clever, good job! Its funny. But to be totally honest .... if you're serious, I'm really very sorry.

What is Saxophone??

awesome.

 

[bruce bailey]

Perfected oboe.

 

[patmiller]

It's an ill wind that nobody blows any good.

 

[mrsaxpunk]

Have you seen this from The London Daily News circa 1926? I think it's hilarious.

The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive; when touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of the saxophone which then shrieks and moans as if attacked by a million imps of torture. The shrieks issue from the large end. So do the moans. The saxophone comes from where the black-eyed Susans grow and coal-black mammies flourish. The concensus of opinion is that it should have stayed there.

 

[RootyTootoot]

Have you seen this from The London Daily News circa 1926?
The saxophone comes from where the black-eyed Susans grow and coal-black mammies flourish. The concensus of opinion is that it should have stayed there.

Ah, those "good old days"..

I shall say "a cross between an out of tune clarinet and and overly complex trumpet".

 

[Thomas]

A magnet that attracts the psychologically impaired.

 

[RandyJ]

The thing I've made a wonderful living with.

JR

 

[BrianMitchellBrody]

My food source. B

 

[jbtsax]

The saxophone - A wind driven mechanically operated pitch approximator. No wait. . . that's a trombone. Sorry.

 

[tjontheroad]

It is that thing I put in my mouth that prevents me from being a vocalist. It's the lesser of evils :twisted:

 

[saxguy007]

What a clarinet aspired to be but failed.