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  2. Antigua Winds - Wikipedia

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    Antigua Winds is a manufacturer of woodwind and brass instruments, including saxophones, clarinets, trumpets, flutes, and musical instrument accessories. It was founded in 1991 by musician and educator Fred Hoey in San Antonio, Texas. Antigua Winds specializes in both professional and student instruments.

  3. Buster Smith - Wikipedia

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    Lester Young also joined the band and, to complement Smith's louder sound, he also opted for a harder reed, using a baritone saxophone reed on his tenor saxophone. This sound was later labelled the Texas Sax Sound. Smith gained a great amount of influence in the Texan music community and industry.

  4. Alto saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E â™­, smaller than the B â™­ tenor but larger than the B â™­ soprano. It is the most common saxophone and is used in popular music, concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, pep bands, carnatic music, and jazz (such as big bands, jazz combos, swing music).

  5. C. G. Conn - Wikipedia

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    Conn "Res-O-Pads" fitted to the bell-keys on a Selmer 'Pennsylvania Special' alto saxophone, made by Kohlert (Czechoslovakia) in 1938. Note that this instrument has rolled toneholes and that the edge of the pad extends over the rim of the key-cup. Between 1920 and 1947, all professional-grade saxophones manufactured by C. G. Conn had rolled ...

  6. List of jazz saxophonists - Wikipedia

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    Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 20th century, influenced by both movements of musicians that became the subgenres and by particularly influential sax players who helped reshape ...

  7. Martin Band Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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    Charlie Parker playing a 1920s Martin 'Handcraft' alto saxophone with Miles Davis in 1947 Another photo of Charlie Parker playing a 1920s Martin 'Handcraft' alto saxophone From 1912 into the 1920s production expanded rapidly to include a full line of brasswinds and saxophones for the professional and amateur markets.

  8. List of saxophonists - Wikipedia

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    X, instrument has been used by person or group; X, instrument has been used by person or group, but much less often than other X-marked instruments; C, person or group uses a C melody saxophone (either as primary instrument, or in addition to the normal tenor sax) F, person or group uses an F Mezzo-soprano saxophone in addition to the Eâ™­ alto ...

  9. Saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The classical saxophone quartet consists of a B â™­ soprano saxophone, E â™­ alto saxophone, B â™­ tenor saxophone, and E â™­ baritone saxophone (SATB). On occasion, the soprano is replaced with a second alto sax (AATB); a few professional saxophone quartets have featured non-standard instrumentation, such as James Fei 's Alto Quartet [ 24 ...

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