How does saxophone make sound?

Answer 1

the air is pushed through the reed and makes the various sounds

Answer 2

By blowing air from ones mouth into a mouth piece that has a reed, the reed vibrates creating a sound, keys are pushed to change the pitch of said sound.

Answer 3

They are produced by when you blow on the reed you make sound that go through the body of the instrument and when you hold down keys you block the sound different ways to create notes!

Different saxophones have different lengths of tubing. The highest pitched of the saxes has the shortest amount of tubing and the lowest pitched has the longest. The more tubing your air has to go through when you blow into the mouthpiece, the deeper, or lower, the sound. You can make lower or higher notes by making air go through more or less of the tubing. You determine this by holding down certain keys, like mentioned earlier. The more keys you hold down, the more your air has to travel before it can blow out of the instrument. If you hold down very few keys, the air can seep out of the holes that arent blocked, therefore it doesnt have to go through the rest of the tubing, making the sound higher pitched. That is how different notes are created!

However, this is not always the case. An example is open c#. This uses no keys but is not the highest note on the instrument.

Answer 4

The Saxophone player provides a flow of air at a pressure above that of the atmosphere (technically, a few k Pa or a few percent of an atmosphere: applied to a water manometer, this pressure would support about a 30 cm height difference). This is the source of power input to the instrument, but it is a source of continuous rather than vibratory power. In a useful analogy with electricity, it is like DC electrical power. Sound is produced by an oscillating motion or air flow (like AC electricity). In the saxophone, the reed acts like an oscillating valve (technically, a control oscillator). The reed, in cooperation with the resonances in the air in the instrument, produces an oscillating component of both flow and pressure. Once the air in the saxophone is vibrating, some of the energy is radiated as sound out of the bell and any open holes. A much greater amount of energy is lost as a sort of friction (viscous loss) with the wall. In a sustained note, this energy is replaced by energy put in by the player. The column of air in the saxophone vibrates much more easily at some frequencies than at others (i.e. it resonates at certain frequencies). These resonances largely determine the playing frequency and thus the pitch, and the player in effect chooses the desired resonances by suitable combinations of keys.

Answer 5

First you have to wet your reed and place it properly on the mouthpiecec so that the top of the reed and mouthpiece are lined up. Then you would curl your bottom lip under and place your front teeth on top and blow. If you put down your three left fingers you will play a G which is a good note to start with.

Answer 6

By putting through air to vibrate the reed.

Answer 7

you blow into it!