{"id":6885,"date":"2009-04-17T08:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2024-06-06T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:19:47","slug":"sometimes-bigger-is-just-well-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2009\/sometimes-bigger-is-just-well-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Bigger, Is Just Well… Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the world’s largest saxophone<\/a>: that being the contrabass of course. However, as many of my readers will know, there were some gimmicky monster saxes built during the saxophone’s reign of the 1920s.<\/p>\n

These monster saxes, as I choose to call them, adorned the outside of music stores, and were used as advertising tools to draw in customers. I kind of think of them as super-sized saxophone mannequins, that were too big for the show windows, so had to be affixed on the outside of the store front.<\/p>\n

During one of my recent excursions on the ‘Net, I came across this great photo of one of these behemoths. The article appeared in the June, 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics<\/em>.  <\/p>\n

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

    Source: blog.modernmechanix.com<\/h6>\n

Now they say things in Texas are bigger. Well, apparently this holds true for saxophones too, because this saxophone<\/a> makes the one above look like a 500 pound weakling.<\/p>\n

The photo linked to on Flickr, was constructed using VW Beetle parts, and sits in front of a former BBQ restaurant\/music venue called Billy Blues, in Houston, Texas. The restaurant has been closed for a number of years, and vandals have not been kind to the work of art. If you are interested in seeing more pictures of the sax, you can find them here<\/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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