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2. Vandoren - Wikipedia

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   The most basic style is the Traditional reed (also known as the "Blue Box" reed), which is very similar to the Traditional clarinet reed. It features a thin tip and a strong heart. Although the Traditional reed is seen as a "classical" saxophone reed, it is extremely versatile and is used by many saxophonists in a variety of musical styles.

3. Reed (mouthpiece) - Wikipedia

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   Alto and tenor saxophone reeds. A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. Most woodwind instrument reeds are made from Arundo donax ("Giant cane") or synthetic material. Tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics. Musical instruments are ...

4. Single-reed instrument - Wikipedia

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   [1] [page needed] The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort.

5. Subcontrabass saxophone - Wikipedia

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   Although described in Adolphe Sax's patent in 1846, a practical, playable subcontrabass saxophone did not exist until the 21st century. [2] An oversized saxophone that might have qualified was built as a prop circa 1965; it could produce tones, but its non-functional keywork required assistants to manually open and close the pads, and it was reportedly incapable of playing a simple scale.

6. Saxophone Sonata (Creston) - Wikipedia

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   According to Simmons, the sonata is "probably Creston's single most widely performed and best-known work". [36] It is widely considered an influential piece in the classical saxophone repertoire. In a conversation with Eugene Rousseau , Marcel Mule stated he considered the sonata "one of the definitive works for saxophone and piano" along with ...

7. Contrabass saxophone - Wikipedia

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   Saxophone ensembles were also popular at this time, and the contrabass saxophone was an eye-catching novelty for the groups that were able to obtain one. By the onset of the Great Depression , the saxophone craze had ended, and the contrabass, already rare, almost disappeared from public view.