The Sax & Brass Book
- ISBN-10
- 0879307374
- ISBN-13
- 9780879307370
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-06-01
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation
- Author
- Paul Trynka
Description
(Book). This is the first illustrated history of the horns that have defined jazz since the 1920s and enhanced more recent pop and rock music with their distinctive, classy sounds. Offering superb, specially commissioned photography and inviting descriptive text, The Sax & Brass Book tells the unique 70-year story of these instruments. Exquisite, color pictorials included throughout enhance detailed historical profiles of master brass and woodwind manufacturers, including Buescher, Buffet, Conn, Holton, King, Leblanc, Martin, Sax, Selmer, Yanagisawa and Yamaha.
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