Anatomy of a Saxophone. All saxophones are comprised of the same basic parts and look fairly similar, with the exception of some variations in the alto sax. Sound is created when a musician blows into a single-reed mouthpiece, causing the neck to vibrate.
Now if you grew up in Houston, you may know this battleâs story well, but Iâll briefly tell it again: on September 8, 1863, four shallow Union gunboats steamed from the Gulf of Mexico into Sabine Pass at the border between Texas and Louisiana. They approached a small fort on the Texas coast known as Fort Griffin.
The Stakes at Sabine Pass. In this 1899 newspaper article, a Confederate veteran claimed that Dick Dowling kept an African American prisoner of war as his personal cook after the Battle of Sabine Pass. The roles of the enslaved or formerly enslaved in the story of Sabine Pass went mostly unrecorded at the time and were seldom mentioned afterwards by whites on either side of the battle.