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Saxophone   Listen
noun
Saxophone  n.  (Mus.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Saxophone" Quotes from Famous Books



... have our pictures in Boys' Life and everything and we're going to have all the apples when they're ripe and maybe we're going to call ourselves the Crab-apple Patrol! Maybe there's treasure buried here, how do we know? And we're going to get one of those things—a saxophone or whatever you call it—to take our latitude and longitude with! We're going to be better than the Ravens and the Elks and the Silver Foxes and I know how to make apple-sauce! We're going to be a new ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... into the drawing-room, where a dozen or so couples were dancing in various stages of aesthetic intoxication. The saxophone and the violin were engaging in a pantomime calculated to add gaiety to the waning enthusiasm of the party, and he gazed at them in disgust. A young lady with hair newly hennaed and face suggestive of an over-ripe pear ogled him over her partner's elbow as they jazzed by. Let her dance on until ...
— Tutors' Lane • Wilmarth Lewis

... years after the "Great War" began in the emotion occasioned by the continued playing of the compositions of one Beethoven, whose work is now fortunately lost, and other music which remained in favor in spite of the official insistence on the use of the steam saxophone for public concerts. Men, wherever they dared, insisted on having the best. And though the records were at length destroyed, the tenacious memories of a few fanatics and cranks preserved much of the old music, and that usually of ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... M. Loeffler's "Divertissement Espagnol" for saxophone and orchestra (written for Mrs. Richard J. Hall) produced at a concert of the Orchestral Club in Boston, with Mrs. Hall ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... walloped his drums; a saxophone squawked, and fiddles squealed. Hereupon appeared a tall authoritative man, at least thirty-two years old, and all swelled up with himself, as interpreted by Noble and several other friends of Julia's—though this, according ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington



Words linked to "Saxophone" :   sax, single-reed instrument



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