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Michael Young

4th hour

Band

3/2/2020

History of the baritone saxophone

The baritone Saxophone was created in Belgium in 1840, and it is sold throughout

the world in different places. There are many bands that use the Bari saxophone. It is used in the

military marching bands and concert bands, and they are sometimes have a solo in big jazz

bands. The Bari saxophone is played by, a wide range of people from beginner to a professional.

Some collages are just for music and drama and if you take the band part. There are some people

devoted to learning all of the, things that you can learn about the Bari saxophone. There are two

different ways that people teach it they either use classical or educational on teaching about the

certain instruments.

The Bari saxophone is made out of dawn brass, which is a brass that helps give it the

low brass tone to it. Most of the weight is supported by the neck strap and the thumb grip. The

highest note that a Bari saxophone can, reach is A-flat and the lowest that it can reach is E- flat is

a D-flat. There are a lot of producers that make the Bari saxophone because they are sold across

the world so there are many different brands of the Bari saxophone. While their where many

different people that played the Bari saxophone had become famous and one of those people is

Harry Carney. There was a person that was considered the father of the Bari saxophone and he

was D. Ellington. The Bari saxophone is considered the king of all instruments. Around the

world there are a lot of people making a big name for themselves by playing the baritone

saxophone and is becoming more popular in different areas in the world. Over in England there
are people who play the Bari saxophone in a duet with another person playing a different

instrument. In Belgium was the first place that the Bari saxophone was created and played the

first notes in Belgium. The Bari saxophone is the lowest of the saxophone family. The Bari

saxophone is a part of a fourteen part family of the alto sax. The baritone saxophone has two

different octave key holes so that it can go to a higher note.

The baritone saxophone sounds a half step, below what the Alto saxophone and the

tenor saxophone. Baritone saxophone is the saxophone that brings, the balance to the music that

is being played. The Baritone saxophone is different in a few ways like the mouth piece is a

different size. What the regular saxophone mouth piece is, and it is bigger than the tenor sax

mouth piece. The size of the Bari saxophone is bigger in size and is taller, than what the other

types of saxophones and is the lowest saxophone in the family of the saxophone. The baritone is

sometimes used in marching bands and it is not regularly used in marching bands because of its

size and weight.

The Bari saxophone is more commonly used in theaters, and the baritone saxophone

was used in a lot of bands all over the place. It is also used sometimes in classical music and it is

used in rock and hip-hop. The Baritone saxophone family is spilt, up into two different groups

and they are soprano and contrabass. The saxophone became so popular because the military

band had used them so much. That they gained a lot of popularity throughout the whole world.

The baritone saxophone has the lowest voice that is used in big bands. As the creator of the

saxophone there was originally a family of fourteen saxophones. Over the years he shrunk the

saxophone family down to eight from the original fourteen. Saxophone that where originally

created by sax. Sax created the saxophone of the design of the bass clarinet.

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