{"id":43752,"date":"2015-07-22T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=43752"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:21:54","slug":"chimp-with-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2015\/chimp-with-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimp With Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still recovering from my surgery\u2014the road is a bit rockier than I had imagined\u2014so I have very little energy to do anything other than spend a few minutes on facebook each day, and maybe catch up on the news via the ‘Net. Other than that I’m spending a big chunk of my day sleeping with the TV on. This morning however, I decided to try and slowly get into what has become my normal routine and do some searching for what’s new or interesting in the world of saxophones.<\/p>\n

Chimp with sax: the sax is so easy to play even a chimp can do it.<\/h2>\n

This morning I found a photo that embodies the comments that people have made over the years about the saxophone’s ease of play. This photo also harkens back to those old vintage ads by Buescher and Conn that told the populace that learning to play the sax was easy.<\/p>\n

Chimp with Sax<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Chimp<\/a><\/p>\n

Photography by: William Avery Hudson<\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hudson took this photo in Spain. Of course there is no word on what the artist meant with painting this garage door. Did the he\/she mean to dis saxophone players? Is it as simple as that? Or was the meaning of this painting more complex?<\/p>\n

Perhaps AMB plays sax him\/herself and also has a pet chimp, and therefore just combined two of his\/her favourite subject matters…<\/p>\n

Oh, I got it, perhaps AMB is a fan of Planet of the Apes,<\/em> and envisions an extra scene in which Cornelius played the saxophone for Zira during a romantic interlude. They did have a baby after all… \ud83d\ude08<\/p>\n

Whatever the artist’s inspiration, Chimp with Sax<\/em> is an example of urban art that puts our instrument front and centre in the subject matter. One remaining question I have is: Why is the the chimp wearing a Tilley hat? Talk about a fashion faux pas.  \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n
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