Vintage Saxophones
Of all the band instruments, the saxophone has generated the most controversy. Its creator, who earnestly set out to make a new kind of instrument in the 1840s, was attacked for making a tool of the devil, capable of manipulating a listener’s sexual desires with its sound. For the next 170 years, it would be associated with the military, Vaudeville and circus folks, African-American communities, and members of the lower classes, as well as...Continue Reading