saxophone

Kind of off-topic, but ironically the saxophone is probably the most optimal of the woodwind instruments.

That said, you don't see too many saxophone designers changing the placement of the keys or inventing new fingerings.

Every new musician who picks up a saxophone, for example, has a hard time playing in tune.

It's easier to start with a basic model of a saxophone, and then add wind pressure, embouchure, and other real techniques.

It's said that Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at times because he would pawn anything he owned of value to buy heroin.

I don't have any musical training other than playing saxophone for a year in the 6th grade.

The saxophone, for example, overblows an octave rather than a twelfth like the clarinet, so you can use the same fingerings in both registers.

As a saxophone player who has played an EWI, the electronic versions take time to learn and often end up feeling not as expressive.

When someone decides to call himself an alien and play the saxophone wildly on the C train, do people call the police because that's unauthorized behavior?

It will be painful at first if you don't naturally have good ears, it was painful for me (which is why I avoided doing so on saxophone), but the payoff is huge.

I was learning saxophone at the time and couldn't really find a fingering chart software that can play the exact notes and vice versa.

It's not optimal, but neither is the saxophone.

It was said that "Trane was the father, Pharoah was the son and I am the Holy Ghost" by Albert ayler, referring to three different saxophone players.

Clinton could play the Saxophone, after that I am struggling to think of any politicians able to demonstrate a useful skill.