The Sexophone

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The Sexophone

[Larry Kart]

Don Byas referred to the tenor saxophone he used in his later days (the one with the top key in the form of a snake) as "The Sexophone":

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/instrumentsB/don-byas.html

Unfortunately, as a knowledgable fellow saxophonist once told me, while that horn certainly looked striking, it was in musical terms notably inferior to Byas' previous instrument.