A saxophone isn't a musical instrument, its a hunk of brass and pipes and valves and stuff.
The CONTEXT makes it a musical instrument. That context doesn't mean a musician, it means expectations. Look up Marcel DuChamps 'readymades' - Items that are only art in context. Elsewhere they're mundane items, but given space in a gallery, they acquire new meanings.
Same with a saxophone. Its only a bunch of brass until someone uses it to make music and CREATES THAT ASSOCIATION IN OUR MINDS. Same as an upturned bin isn't a drum until you see a street musician playing a bunch of them. They're not bins anymore. They ARE drums. What they WERE isn't important, they've now become a drumset and nothing you can say changes that, even if the drummer gets up and walks away for a shady pint, you still see a drumset in front of you.
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