When my kids were young and they had to write “poems” or other writings to fill up a page for a school assignment, I often suggested they write a word down the left side of the page and use the first letter for the first word of that line and the text should somehow relate to the word that is written down the side. It ended up making for a easy way to fill a page and got them over the blank page block that was stopping them from starting to write anything. As I try to write things to fill my blog regularly, I am sometimes faced with the blank page problem. How to start writing something. I am writing more for practice of writing and exercise for my brain than I am for people reading and in fact don’t expect that anyone but me is reading this so I will amuse myself by occasionally doing what I suggested for my kids so that I can fill the page. Sounds so soothing, simply sweet sax sounds. Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840 for facility of playing and loudness of sound; intended for both band and orchestra. Xylophones are not saxophone. Often played in marching band since the beginning of its invention, it never was really accepted in the orchestra. Poor little saxophone, no one wanted to add it to orchestra but it has done well everywhere else. Actually a few composers did include it including Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bizet, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ibert, Britten, Debussy and George Gershwin. In fact the Mi-Bémol Saxophone Ensemble has taken Prokofiev's piece a little further featuring all parts on saxophone. Human voice is sometimes imitated by the sound of the saxophone. One of the original saxophones played by Adolphe Sax was a bass which was used in performance to provide a low bass voice-like sound. Once you hear the sound of a sax, you’re going to want to hear it more. Not only did Sax invent the saxophone, he invented the Saxotromba, the Saxhorn and the Saxtuba. He obviously was trying to invent a new "Sax-latin" language too. Saxbut, saxit saxnever saxcaught saxon. Ernst (Roy) founded the New Horizons band which has afforded me the chance to play my saxophone in a band.
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