“Yay! It’s a saxophone choir and they got all the different kinds too!”

“What is that monstrosity in the middle of the group?”

“It’s the radiator that ate Cleveland.”

“It’s a saxophone that sounds like a tuba!”

“That, ladies, is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the band: the double E-flat contrabass saxophone. I saw one of those at a symphony performance at the Arts Center once. It’s almost seven feet tall.”

“It’s pitched an octave below the baritone sax.”

“Okay, Goofy, you’ve got to help us out here, because you’re the expert. What have we got in this group?”

“Okay, if you start from the left side of the choir, there’s a soprano, sopranino, tenor and bass. Then the contra-bass. Then there’s a baritone, soprillo and alto.”

“What’s a soprillo?”

“It’s kind of like a piccolo saxophone. It’s a B-flat horn pitched an octave above a soprano. I’ve never played one but I played a sopranino once. It was fun and I could play notes as high as my flute!”

“Bet most people didn’t know there were eight different kinds of saxophones.”

“There’s more than eight.”

“What’s next? The Double-Contra-Bass that’s ten feet tall?”

“There’s a double B-flat subcontrabass called a Tubax. It’s the lowest-pitched saxophone ever made.”

“You feed it cheeseburgers.”

“And french fries!”

“There’s also a contra-alto which is a concert-pitch soprano, a slide soprano, concert tenor, saxellos, which are straight versions of sopranos and tenors, and there’s even one called a Xaphoon they play in Hawaii and Indonesia and Jamaica that’s made of bamboo, but it doesn’t have keys.”

“My goodness, Jessica. Where did you learn all that?”

“She’s the professor of musicness. Just smile and slowly back away.”

“I like playing saxophone. It’s lots of fun! I can’t wait to have my own saxophone choir someday.”

“That would be neat!”