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a Belgian's lovechild between brass muscle and woodwind whisper, banned by the Nazis for sounding too free.
means A single-reed wind instrument with a conical metal body, valved keys, and a flared bell, used widely in jazz, classical, and popular music.
from Named for its inventor, the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax, who patented it in the 1840s — his surname fused with the Greek 'phōnē,' meaning sound or voice, the same '-phone' that ends telephone and microphone. So the name literally means 'Sax's sound,' a rare case of an instrument carrying its maker's name into every language that plays it.
- inventor
- Adolphe Sax, who survived multiple near-fatal childhood accidents
- hybrid breed
- brass body, woodwind reed, no clean category
- patented
- Sax filed it in Paris, 1846
- banned
- Nazis deemed its jazz roots degenerate
- newcomer
- younger than the saxophone-free Beethoven symphonies
charlie parker — jazz saxophonist who pioneered bebop in the 1940s with his revolutionary improvisation style
john coltrane — tenor saxophonist who transformed jazz with modal improvisation and sheets of sound technique, 1950s-60s
alto saxophone — the specific instrument type, most common in jazz, pitched in e-flat, used by parker and millions since