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.
Tweet. Second Battle of Sabine Pass. About 6:00 am on the morning of September 8, 1863, a Union flotilla of four gunboats and seven troop transports steamed into Sabine Pass and up the Sabine River with the intention of reducing Fort Griffin and landing troops to begin occupying Texas.