Anatomy of a Saxophone. All saxophones are comprised of the same basic parts and look fairly similar, with the exception of some variations in the alto sax. Sound is created when a musician blows into a single-reed mouthpiece, causing the neck to vibrate.
Now if you grew up in Houston, you may know this battleâs story well, but Iâll briefly tell it again: on September 8, 1863, four shallow Union gunboats steamed from the Gulf of Mexico into Sabine Pass at the border between Texas and Louisiana. They approached a small fort on the Texas coast known as Fort Griffin.
Following the Battle of Calcasieu Pass on May 17, 1864, for example, a Confederate officer stationed at Sabine Pass reported that of fifteen Negroes captured (7 Northern and 8 Southern), ten were sent to Houston while the other five were in [the] charge of specific Confederate officers or assigned to labor for the Confederacy .