Sachs reputation
This instrument use single reed play, open and close the sound hole structure and oboe almost, range and oboe similar, should belong to woodwind instrument, but the pipe body is of copper and brass instruments belong to. It on the coarse sound fine mouth up, much like bass clarinet. From the bass to treble have made many sax, and is full of transposing instrument. The saxophone tone is unusually rich charming, strong wind as brass, woodwind, weak when playing like a wind instrument is a kind of the best partners. saxophone pads
French composer bizet, st and mulberry in his work, the use of the sax. Saxophone is jazz band small band indispensable instrument.
Now often use have four saxophone: drop B Soprano saxophone (Soprano saxophone). Drop E Alto saxophone (Alto saxophone). Drop B time sound sax (Tenor saxophone). Drop E on bass saxophone (Baritonesaxophone).
Several saxophone of fingering are exactly the same, is all transposing instrument, with high staff notation.
French composer Berlioz once wrote: "sachs main characteristic is that beautiful tone change, deep and quiet, rich feeling, soft and sad, like echo of echo, in the silent moment, there is no any other musical instrument can emit this wonderful sound."
Sachs was known as "incomparable merry instruments".
The saxophone can not only well play classical music, and more adept at playing jazz music, light music, people mention jazz, think of the first instrument is sax. The biggest characteristic is to jazz improvisation, played in the strength to take turns, adopt continuous syncopated rhythm technique, make the change boundless, tone on dramatic, already fierce feverishness and Ann pounds, both funny and rich in deep sadness. The saxophone in tone, in glissando; Tremolo, tongue; The characteristics of super blow, acclimated to the jazz improvisation of the biggest characteristic of need. Therefore, improvisation has become the saxophone player pursues performance characteristics.