A saxophone quartet is like a string quartet, a standalone ensemble with one

each, baritone, tenor, halto, and soprano saxophones. A jazz big band

sax section has five saxophones, typically two altos, two tenors, and a baritone.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and

as always, I'm so glad that you joined me to talk about music played by piano

trios, sax quartets, string quartets, wind quintets, and every other type of

tet. The episode you're about to listen to is entirely independent and entirely

listening or supported, and while I say that every episode, I really want to

emphasize how cool that is. If you'd like to help me make this show, go to

patreon.com, slash strong songs to sign up, and all my current patrons, thank you,

thank you so much. So as it turns out, my most recent mailbag episode merely

scratched the surface of all the listener questions I've got saved up, so we're

back with more of your best musical questions. I'm excited to get into it, but

there's another opinion that we haven't really gotten in a while. So you know what I

think we should do? I think we should ask the horns what they think.

I really do have a ton of saved up listener questions, and I'll probably never be

able to get to all of them. Thanks so much to everyone who has ever sent one in.

Even if I haven't gotten a chance to answer your question, I may still one day

it could totally happen. I've got them all saved. So by all means send more musical

questions to listeners at StrongSongsPodcast.com. I'm always looking for more

things to talk about. Speaking of that, we've got a lot of ground to cover, so let's

get into it. Natalie writes referring to a Q&A episode from a little while back.

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