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n. A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece and a usually curved conical metal tube, including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sizes.

n. A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards

n. A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

n. A musical instrument, properly of the clarinet class, but with a metal tube like a trumpet or horn, invented by Adolphe Sax about 1840.

n. a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

"When he plays free-form style, as on "Late Works," his new duet album with guitarist Fred Frith, it's the most extreme avant-garde music you'll hear, combining the furthest-out acoustic screeches and shrieks that an alto saxophone is capable of making with the distortion and random noise that only a guitar-based electronics kit can produce."

single-reed instrument    single-reed woodwind   

soprano saxophone    saxophonist    contra-bass saxophone    sopranino saxophone    bass saxophone   

sax    clarinet    clarionet    cornet    banjo