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By moving a series of keys in a desired order and blowing into the Saxophone by the reed, you can make sound. The buttons are pressed in a sequence in order to make different notes to make a note seem either flat (b) or sharp (#) A saxophone has a mouthpiece to which a reed is attached. When the player blows the reed vibrates creating a tone. The player changes the tone by pressing the keys, which open and close tone holes. When upper tone holes are open, much of the sound goes through them creating a shorter pipe and in turn a higher pitch. As lower holes are closed the sound is lower and a higher percentage of it comes out of the bell.

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The saxophone is a reed instrument. This means that a reed (a thin piece of wood) is strapped to the mouthpiece. When a player puts his/her mouth to the instrument and expels air out of their mouth, the reed vibrates, thus causing the sound you hear. The keys are pressed down to create different tones. When a hole is covered up, the first place for air to escape is farther down the instrument, making the tone lower in pitch.

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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.

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you have to blow through the moouth piece but if you want to tune it then you have to press the keys.

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12y ago

By putting a reed on the mouthpiece. The vibrations of the reed on the mouthpice produces sound. It takes good time to sound pretty... :)

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A piece of reed vibrates in your mouth and the plactic part of the mouth peace kinda like a peace of weed in your mouth

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