The Photon And The Dog

 

            Didn’t you hear that Ring? Go and answer the Saxophone!

            When I was young, before I got into grade school, I learned to play the accordion.  I played it at home during my kindergarten years and first grade.  My father and his father had played the accordion when they were young.  However, my grade school had a school band but did not have any accordion players in it.  My parents and I looked and decided on me to buy and play a saxophone.  I thought the saxophone was an old timey instrument with a lot of music played on it.  I didn’t realize that it was just invented a few years earlier.

            I recently found out that in the early 1840s a Belgian instrument maker invented and physically made the Adolphe Sax, and he received an official French patent for it on June 28, 1846.  Development of Saxes had them designed and exhibited as public instruments around 1841 to 1842 in Paris, where they combined a single-reed woodwind mouthpiece with a brass conical body.  The patent date was June 28, 1846, and he was granted a 15-year patent in France.  The  original saxophone family initiated a design covered a family of instruments which ranged from sopranino to contrabass, and a lot was built for military bands and orchestras.

            I also did not realize that the accordion was first created in 1822 by German instrument maker Christian Friedrich Buschmann.  He’s the guy who built a small portable keyboard with free reeds and bellows called the Hand-äoline.   Several key milestones in his invention included

In 1822, when Buschmann developed the first free-reed bellows instrument in Berlin.

And then, in 1829 a Viennese instrument maker, Cyrill Demian, who was also called Cyrillus Damian,  added several left-hand chord buttons and files the official patent for the instrument, coining the name "accordion".  Then, in 1844  Sir Charles Wheatstone patented a related version known as the concertina.

            The first saxophone was primarily made of brass, although its design had  experimentally  blended many qualities of woodwinds and brass.  Such as the Body and Neck, which were usually crafted from sheet brass, yellow brass, or variations like gold brass, red brass, or bronze depending on the desired tone.  Some musicians experimented with alternative metals in order to  professionally  custom make models using sterling silver, nickel silver, or solid copper.  Those instruments’ finishes were mostly brass bodies,  coated with a clear lacquer, gold-plated, or silver-plated to prevent tarnishing and alter the visual or acoustic properties.  Those saxophones’ finger able keys and internal parts were mechanized using brass parts combined with stainless steel springs and rods, while tone-hole pads are made of leather or synthetic materials with a resonator.  Of course there was that mouthpiece, many times made of ebonite, which is hard rubber, and then plastic, or some sort of metal paired with a wooden or bamboo reed.

            I find it interesting what the accordion made of.  The accordion originated in the early 1820s in Europe by a German musical instrument maker by the name of Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann. He had the popularity because of the accordion, spanning across several countries and then by the 1840s, Russia began manufacturing around 10,000 accordions a year. World Wide, that accordion was also associated with several Chinese musical instruments, including the Sheng, which had a mouthpiece, bamboo pipes, resonator box and a wind chamber. The classical accordion evolved during the early part of the 20th Century and was developed and standardized by our early 1950’s. It is also known as the free-bass accordion, accordéon de concert, accordéon classique, klassische akkordeon, bajan and modern concert accordion amongst other more exotic names.

            I played the alto saxophone in grade school.  In the bands, both sitting and marching, I grew to be kept in first or second place.  The other guy who was in first and second place with me was friendly at the start, but we started wanting to be ahead of each other and we lost our friendship.  In high school, since I was a tall guy, the band instructor had me play the baritone saxophone because he had no one that big to be able to physically keep playing it.  At first, it sounded good to me, but since it was able to play a lot of deep and loud notes, the parts of the songs that I played were only to keep the other instrument players on a timing course.  I had to go along with the drums and tuba and none of us got to play music that we wanted.

 

            During my time in grade school my parents paid a nearby musician to help me learn more about saxophone music.  I had a meeting each week. I got to enjoy talking to him and he hired me to clean his house on the beginning of spring times.  He was Jewish and I was Catholic and he also taught me that people are people and religion differences are just how someone thinks they are different.  Religion was to be helpful to each other.  Not to force other people into following you because you want to order other people around.

 

            When I was twelve my parents had a party in our basement.  Two couples brought their daughters along with them to relax.  I took them up to my bedroom and played my saxophone for them.  My parents scolded me for bringing two girls up to my bedroom.  Afterwards I realized what my parents got mad about.

            I enjoy listening to recording by Saxophone Comedy Players:

 

                                    Zoltan Kaszas

                                    Jimmy Fallon and Jack Black

                                    Ali Siddiq

                                    The Bob & Tom Show

 

            And there is also several Accordion Comedy Players:

 

                                    Judy Tenuta

                                    Weird Alo Yankovic

                                    Peter Barbuti

                                    Nora Kirkpatrick

                                    Vitali

 

            Think about Sheng, Oboe, and Lyery!

            I read music.  I think music.  My mind rests on music.  At grade school when I sung with the rest of the class the teacher told me to stop.  Note, not, or cannot?  My world is in a knot.  Snots to you.

            Saxophone is a reed instrument.  Wooden you blow that?   Don’t blow your horns, or your trumpets, or even your tubas.  Too, too, tubas.  Or is that Toot Toot Tubas?  Not Tooth, Tooth, Tubas.  Your teeth leave marks on the Saxophone mouthpiece. 

 

            Oboes are not Hobos.  They have vital double-reed elements made from canes that control airflow and vibrations to create your music.

            Clarinets also are played with reeds  and should not be called ‘WEEDS’.

            A Natural Cane is used for most single-reed saxophone, but also relates the clarinet and those double-reed, oboe, bassoon, and other instruments.

            How about the synthetic polymers which used for weather-resistant synthetic reeds . such as polypropylene or specialized polymer compounds.  Don’t forget the

other keyboard instruments like the  pianos, clavichords, harpsichords and other Harpos and other Grouchos and other Marxes with their Pipe Organs, or is that Pie Organs?  Harmonium, Celesta.   That Carillon was in the church with tower bells operated via a massive keyboard of batons and pedals.

            Over and over, I never played a string instrument or a percussion music maker but I always felt interested in violins, cellos, and harpsichords and the xylophones, marimbas, and glockenspiels, or even trumpets or tubas.

            Then, now, and forever, I liked playing music and I am disappointed with myself for having an inward part of myself to write stories and poems, and even though I liked to play music, I created no music for myself and to share.

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