I enjoy saxophone music when played. It belongs to the family of woodwind instruments.
I know I've heard a saxophone being played, but can't quite remember how its sound is differnt from other woodwinds.
I has a very sensual sound. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece
I have a real hard time differentiating musical sounds.  It made my orchestra teacher crazy because I didn't know if I was in tune.
Me too I'm bad at playing but love to listen. But the great thing about music is that everyone can enjoy it regardless of skill. Like the clarinet, saxophones have holes in the instrument which the player closes
Have you ever played one?  Like in school?  I've tried but cannot produce consistent sounds.
and popular music. Saxophone players are called "saxophonists".
Since the first saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s, saxophones have been produced in a variety of series distinguished by transpositions within instrument sets and tuning standard. Sax patented the saxophone on 28 June 1846, in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments ranked by pitch, in alternating transposition. The series pitched in B and E soon became dominant and most saxophones encountered today are from this series.
Saxophone
The saxophone (referred to colloquially as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Although most saxophones are made from brass, they are categorized as woodwind instruments, because sound is produced by an oscillating reed, traditionally made out of woody cane, rather than lips vibrating in a mouthpiece cup as with the brass instrument family. As with the other woodwinds, the pitch of the note being played is