I know what you mean Roger, despite my best efforts I think I'm still very much at the stage of being a saxophone owner rather than a saxophone player.
A saxophone learner is a distinct step from a saxophone mucker-arounder. I'm trying to be a saxophone learner but have tendencies to fall back into mucking around.
cheers,
Bob
ps I'm tempted to predict that this will soon descend into 'hole in't middle of road, we were lucky t' be beaten t'death before we were born...' territory.
I second (or third) that, there's always something else to learn, and that applies to everything else as well as saxophone playing, which is what makes life the precious gift that it is.