- Material: Bamboo pipe
-General Features: Wool decorations
Approx. Size:
Length: 60 cm (23.62")

The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, and jazz, but it was originally intended as both an orchestral and military band instrument. Made of bamboo, played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. Inexpensive keyless folk versions of the saxophone made of bamboo were developed in the 20th century by instrument makers in Hawaii, Jamaica, Thailand, Indonesia, and Argentina. The Hawaiian instrument, called a xaphoon, is also marketed as a "bamboo sax"