Saxophone Vocabulary
semi-tone (or half step).
Side-C - Method of producing a C by fingering a 1st finger B and adding the second side key with the right hand.
Spring - A thin rigid wire used to return a key to its original position when depressed. Also, a lovely season!
Staff - The five lines and four spaces music is written on. [Keyboard music is often written on a Grand Staff, which are two staves (plural of staff) of music joined by braces.]
Tone - 1. A sound of definite pitch. 2. The interval of a major second; a whole step. [Major second -(for a visual representation) the sound produced by two keys on the piano that have one key in between them (i.e. A to B, B to C-sharp, etc.).]
Upper Stack - The section of keys controlled by the left hand.
---some terms had help from the Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music, compiled by Don Michael Randel.---
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