Well idiot, its like this, I played a trumpet, but never a sax. I know a trumpet needs the lips as the vibration source, I can only imagine what a trumpet with a reed would sound like so the question mark. Idiot.
I played in a few bands and orchestras and sampled a few instruments. Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone, use reeds. French horn, Trumpet, Trombone use lips. And air . . . and tension to achieve different notes
While the trumpet only has 4 notes per valve combination it is possible to "slur" from one to the next, and a good player can make it seem seamless - but can't stop and hold a note between two normal notes. Maybe Winton Marsalis can, but I seriously doubt it.
A clarinet, sax, virtuoso can slur and more easily hit illegal notes because the valves can open part way - trumpets not so lucky.
And I built a few pipe organs, idiot. The pipe organ is a flute with one pipe per note. There are also reed pipes and are used in pipe organs (with tunable reeds - but the pipe length and volume determine the note) Reeds alone are used in smaller organs - similar to an accordion or harmonica in design - both reed instruments.
A pipe organ with flute toned pipes uses combinations of pipes to make different sounds - emulating human voices or other string or wind instruments (different "stops" or multiple linked valves in the "wind chest") - but to make a pipe organ that sounds like a reed instrument you really need a reed at the base of the pipe.
A reed has all the warmth of a electromechanical seatbelt buzzer until you add the pipe.
ChairmanOfTheBored thou doth be a vicious troll.