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Mini-jazz (Haitian Creole: mini-djaz) is a reduced méringue-compas band format of the mid-1960s characterized by the rock band formula of two guitars, one bass, and drum-conga-cowbell; some use an alto sax or a full horn section, while others use a keyboard, accordion or lead guitar.
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said animating horses is "the most difficult thing to do". [3] The animators used Eadweard Muybridge's famous animation of a horse galloping and other photo references as models for Princess. [4] In the talent show scene, Lisa is lit up by a spotlight when she performs with her
The clarinet and tenor saxophone player Jimmy Giuffre used a clarinet-style embouchure with a tenor saxophone with a specially-modified neck. [3] It is still commonly, and controversially, taught to beginning students as a shortcut to a passable result in lieu of more sustained effort developing embouchure strength and technique.
The House is located in the birthplace of Sax, Dinant, in the French language part of Belgium. Near the House and in other places in Dinant, artwork reminds of his connection with the city. On both sides of the Charles de Gaulle Bridge a number of huge artworks of colourful saxophones are presented. The name of the tourist flyer is Sax and the ...
The xaphoon's fingerings, however, are significantly different from those of either a saxophone or recorder. The most common instrument, in C, is 12.5 inches or 32 cm long. Due to having a closed bore instead of an open bore like a recorder , its range is an octave below recorders of comparable length; for example, the soprano recorder's lowest ...
Sax (cigarette), an Italian brand "Sax" (song), a 2015 song English recording artist Fleur East; Seax, also spelled sax, an ancient Germanic, single-edged knife; Simple API for XML, an event-driven parsing model for XML; Baron of Sax, later Sax-Hohensax, a Swiss title; see Hohensax Castle; ISO 639 code for the Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu
The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...