Xaphoon
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The xaphoon (also known as Maui xaphoon or bamboo sax) is a single-reed keyless bamboo wind instrument. The xaphoon was invented during the 1970s by the American instrument maker Brian Wittman, who still makes all of his instruments by hand, using local bamboo cut from the forests of the eastern end of his home island of Maui, Hawaii.
The xaphoon, which is available in the keys of C, B♭, and D (as well as any other key via special order) uses a regular tenor saxophone reed. It has a range of two octaves and is fully chromatic. On the instrument's website, Wittman explains the origin of the instrument's unusual name: "A name developed from 'bamboozaphone' to 'bamboozafoon' to 'bamboo zafoon' to just 'zafoon', also spelled 'xaphoon'."
In 2000, the instrument was made available also in a plastic version, which is marketed under the name pocket sax.
