Saxophonist course

The saxophonist is the one who plays, as a hobby or profession, the saxophone, also commonly called sax, a simple reed aerophone musical instrument belonging to the wood family. The length of the vibrating air column, and therefore the height of the sound produced, is modified through holes, controlled by keys, on the body of the instrument. This musical instrument was invented by Adolphe Sax, from whom it took its name, in 1840 and patented on June 22, 1846. It has had a great and fast expansion in many musical genres thanks to its qualities of expressiveness and flexibility. The sax is a hybrid between the clarinet, of which it essentially retains the mouthpiece, and the ophicleide, an instrument of the brass family although it was built in wood, of low range whose body has a system of keys to modulate the pitches of the sounds. After making several prototypes, Adolphe Sax arrived at the definitive form of the saxophone by adopting brass as the construction material, as the main user of Adolphe Sax's innovative instruments was the military wind orchestra. Wood presents a series of problems related to wear, changes in climate and humidity that make it unsuitable for military life. Compared to the clarinet, which has a cylindrical bore, the inventor adopted a conical bore, similar to that of the ophicleide, which allowed a greater projection of the sound and a completely different emission. Since the bore is of different shape and size, the harmonic content of the sound is completely different.