Tenor Saxophone    

                The Tenor Single-Reed Instrument May Be A Medium-Sized Member Of The Single-Reed Instrument Family, A Gaggle Of Instruments Fabricated By Adolphe Sax Within The Decennary. The Tenor, With The Alto, Square Measure The 2 Most Typical Varieties Of Saxophones. The Tenor Is Pitched Within The Key Of B♭, And Written As A Transposing Instrument Within The G Clef, Sounding Associate Octave And A Significant Second Under The Written Pitch. Fashionable Tenor Single-Reed Instruments That Have A High F# Key Have A Variety From A♭2 To E5 (Concert) And Square Measure Thus Pitched One Octave Below The Soprano Saxophone. Those That Play The Tenor Single-Reed Instrument Square Measure Called "Tenor Saxophonists" Or "Tenor Sax Players".

             The Tenor Sax Uses A Bigger Mouthpiece, Reed, And Ligature Than The Alto And Soprano Saxophones. Visually, It's Simply distinguished From These Instruments By The Bend In Its Neck, Or Its Crook, Close To The Mouth piece.

           The Tenor Sax Is Employed In Many Various Sorts Of Ensembles, Together With Concert Bands, Band Jazz Ensembles, Little Jazz Ensembles, And March Bands. It's Often Enclosed In Items Written For Symphony And For Chamber Ensembles; 3 Samples Of This Ar Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Suite From Lieutenant Kijé, And Webern's Quartet For Bowed Stringed Instrument, Clarinet, Tenor Sax, And Piano. As One Bands, The Tenor Plays Largely A Supporting Role, Typically Sharing Components With The Sousaphone, Horn And Brass. In Jazz Ensembles, The Tenor Plays Aadditional Outstanding Role, Usually Sharing Components Or Harmonies With The Alto Saxophone.

             Many Of The Foremost Vital Jazz Musicians Are Tenor Saxophonists, As Well As Hawkins, Lester Young, Mountain webster, Laddie Rollins, Stan Getz, John Coltrane And Wayne Shorter.