Thank you all! Now some of the pieces are starting to fall in place and i start to get some understanding of the workings of the saxophone and all it entails, though i'm sure I'm far from actually knowing even half of everything that there is to know. Or make that one-tenth even. xD
Anyway, thank you all for your great answers!
More questions will probably come your way anytime soon though
(btw, even on a recorder I noticed how i could shift pitch by just moving my tongue around. Really something I had never known! kinda fun, though it didn't give much of a pitch-shift, and on a side nite, I really found it hard to consistently close all the holes properly xD guess i'll just have to keep working on that, though i really dislike the (much) too high sound of the recorder (and no, i'm not blowing too hard, i've been trying to keep the airflow as slowly as possible, while still getting a tone and when all the holes were properly closed the sound was pleasantly low, but anyway, i'm now probably boring you all with this useless chattering so i'll stop..
bye! (is 'cheerio!' still being used in the UK btw?)