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.
1 Sabine Pass' commander, Lieutenant Richard William Dowling, namesake of the Dick Dowling Junior High School. 2  The Case of Beaumont's Missing Marble Corpse by W. T. Block, Jr. (Cannonball's Tales) It was July of 1901 in Beaumont, and the frenzy of oil excitement rushed on unabated.