Definition of "saxophone" [sax•o•phone]

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

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• "THE SIMPSONS NETWORK: Can you imagine a television network where Sideshow Bob is beating himself up with rakes or Bleeding Gums Murphy is powerhousing his saxophone from the heavens at any given moment in the day?"
• "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."
• "The saxophone is Jazzamoart's fetish, the instrument that appears most often in his work."