saxophone
pronunciation
How to pronounce saxophone in British English:
UK [ˈsæksəfəʊn]
How to pronounce saxophone in American English:
US [ˈsæksəfoʊn]
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- Noun:
- a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore
Word Origin
- saxophone
- saxophone: [19] The saxophone commemorates the name of its inventor, the Belgian musical instrument maker Adolphe Sax (1814–94) (his real Christian names were Antoine Joseph). He seems to have devised it around 1840, and the term saxophone first appeared in English in 1851, in the catalogue of the Great Exhibition. His father Charles Joseph Sax (1791–1865) was also an instrument maker, and similarly had an instrument of his invention named after him – the saxhorn [19].
- saxophone (n.)
- 1851, from French saxophone, named for Antoine Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (1814-1894), Belgian instrument maker who devised it c. 1840, + Greek -phonos "voiced, sounding." His father, Charles Joseph (1791-1865) invented the less popular saxhorn (1845). The surname is a spelling variant of Sachs, Sacks, literally "Saxon." Related: Saxophonist.
Example
- 1. In the tenth grade a bunch of them took my saxophone away from me on the streetcar .
- 2. 1944 : An accomplished clarinet and saxophone player , he joins henry jerome 's travelling big band .
- 3. As she walked down the aisle a saxophone played " when a man loves a woman " .
- 4. He was the one to learn that my elderly neighbor had survived the bataan death march , why my brother had given up the saxophone , and that my father had gotten caught in a snowstorm on the night of president john f. kennedy 's inauguration .
- 5. If the editor 's brother had wanted to appreciate something slimmer and better-looking , he could have done worse than notice the girl playing the saxophone in the band serenading us , who was younger , prettier and more talented than me .