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Meanings of alto saxophone in English

Russian
саксофон-альт
Portuguese
saxofone alto
Spanish
saxo alto
Catalan
saxòfon alt
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Type of saxophone.

        саксофон-альт

        Martino (arr) A Gershwin Fantasy [George Gershwin]

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              Examples for "alto sax"
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              A moment later I was startled to hear an alto sax come in.
              The Great Book of Amber
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              For me, as an alto sax player, all jazz stems from Charlie Parker.
              The Irish Times
              3
              The tenor sax, alto sax, and trumpet throw in simple riffs every now and then.
              After dark
              4
              In the mid-1940s, alto sax player Charlie Parker pioneered bebop music by producing rapid-fire flights of improvisational fancy.
              Wired
              5
              Nick Tipping speaks to the alto sax player, and composer Jake Baxendale about the group and its new album.
              Radio NZ
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              At Hudson High School, in Macon, he played the alto saxophone with the school band and he also learnt the piano.
              Independent.ie
              2
              He could play anything, could this pasty Dominique, but of all instruments he was at his tuneful best on the alto saxophone.
              O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
              3
              Newly-commissioned pieces by Gerald Barry, for cinema organ, and John Buckley, for alto saxophone, will be performed on Saturday and Sunday night.
              The Irish Times
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