Today, there are lots of different pitched saxophones – the main ones being soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. But I always assumed there must have been a first saxophone, that the others developed from. I always wondered whether any of the saxophones we still play are the same key as the original one, or whether the first was in some other key.
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There are lots of different types of woodwind instrument, they are not all made of wood and some have reeds and some don’t. So what was the first woodwind instrument, how do all the later ones follow on from it and are they actually all related?
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