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I thought it was called an axe 'cos it doesn't look too dissimilar to a viking axe? Didn't Gene Simmons use an axe shaped Bass too? Maybe cos an axe is a weapon, and a guitar with a similar shape can also be called a weapon 8)

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Again, it's not a guitar... jazz players from the 20's on referred to their horns as "axes." This type of use goes back to the days of "cutting" contests, where the "chops" you had developed during your time in the "woodshed" got shown off. Dig the title of the old swing standard "Woodchopper's Ball." Jazz cats called their instruments "axes" way before their even were electric guitars.

First Measure, Stephen FOster wasn't a jazz musician or a horn player. he was a 19th century songwriter who was dead by 1864... just a few decades before anybody called a saxophone an "axe."


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i use to have a gibson corvous (check spelling) It was latin for AXE. it looked like an axe.

And Jim is right about the wood sheddin, that is where the AXE term came from


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Gravity Jim wrote:
Again, it's not a guitar... jazz players from the 20's on referred to their horns as "axes." This type of use goes back to the days of "cutting" contests, where the "chops" you had developed during your time in the "woodshed" got shown off. Dig the title of the old swing standard "Woodchopper's Ball." Jazz cats called their instruments "axes" way before their even were electric guitars.

First Measure, Stephen FOster wasn't a jazz musician or a horn player. he was a 19th century songwriter who was dead by 1864... just a few decades before anybody called a saxophone an "axe."


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Okay, so now that that is all cleared up what about these word origins?

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EdMardell wrote:
Didn't Gene Simmons use an axe shaped Bass too?

So does "Mini" Gene Simmons.
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Gravity Jim wrote:
Again, it's not a guitar... jazz players from the 20's on referred to their horns as "axes." This type of use goes back to the days of "cutting" contests, where the "chops" you had developed during your time in the "woodshed" got shown off. Dig the title of the old swing standard "Woodchopper's Ball." Jazz cats called their instruments "axes" way before their even were electric guitars.

First Measure, Stephen FOster wasn't a jazz musician or a horn player. he was a 19th century songwriter who was dead by 1864... just a few decades before anybody called a saxophone an "axe."
I know that!! But are you sure that he didn't call his Guitar an Axe? Are you sure the Jazzers of the '20s didn't pick the phrase up from thier Concert Band predisessors? Since the Saxaphone was invented in the 1840's, are you sure they didn't start calling it an axe in 1850 or 1860? In other words, what make you so sure?

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