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.
Sabine Pass is the waterway serving as the outlet of the Sabine Lake estuary formed by the confluence of the Neches and Sabine rivers. The port at Sabine City was connected by a rail spur to the rail line running from the eastern border of Texas to Houston and Galveston.