Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. aerophones
8. reeds (aerophones)
9. reedpipes (confined aerophones)
10. [reedpipes with single reed]
11. [reedpipes with single reed: with conical bore]

Narrower term/s

• alto saxophones
• baritone saxophones
• soprano saxophones
• tenor saxophones

Anotations

Scope note:

Single-reed instruments, commonly of brass, with wide conical bore and slightly flared bell; built in several sizes from sopranino to contrabass, all but the two smallest are bent back in a U-form with the bell tilted forward.