Difference between Saxophone and Sax

What is the difference between Saxophone and Sax?

Saxophone as a noun is a single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards while Sax as a noun is short form of saxophone.

Saxophone

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards

Example sentence: My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

Sax

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Short form of saxophone.

Example sentence: I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

We hope you now know whether to use Saxophone or Sax in your sentence.

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