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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on November 02, 2011, 09:29:16 AM
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/saks/
:)
Start to sing? ESS
Date with an MD APPT
Couple of Couples puns:
Couples with clubs FRED [a frightening concept]
Couples’s org. PGA [not sure you need the final -s]
??? Sax WOODWINDINABAND [it's all brass (with a reed) so I wonder where the wood went]
:-[ The covert theme took me some time to find; I kept looking at the answers and forgot about the clues.
RATING: ;D ;D Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = No fun
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??? Sax WOODWINDINABAND [it's all brass (with a reed) so I wonder where the wood went]
Saxes are woodwinds because of the reed; or, possibly more accurately, because they're wind instruments that don't have the cup-shaped mouthpiece of a brass instrument, and thus are not played by buzzing the lips. Harmonicas—but not glass harmonicas, which are entirely different and unrelated—are likewise classified as woodwinds, when classified at all, despite a complete lack of wood.
Saxophone fingering is also far more like that of other woodwind instruments than that of common brass instruments.
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Thanks, Drew.
That saxes are reeds I get. But where's the wood? Even my ancient harmonica has wood to separate the notes. Why, if the term wind is a must (though I don't know why it would be) is the class not just called winds?
Of course, this is of moment to cruciverbalists and "hot air," so to speak, to horn blowers.