Today, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Adolphe Sax's birth!
Adolphe Sax was the inventor of the saxophone. He was born in Belgium on November 6, 1814. His father was an instrument maker, so Adolphe grew up helping his dad. Adolphe helped make improvements to the bass clarinet before inventing his own family of instruments called the saxhorns (pictured below - spoiler alert: they don't look anything like saxophones). After that, he invented the saxophone.
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| The saxhorn family. There's a band in Michigan (that a few of my friends have played in) that dresses up in old-time clothes and plays saxhorns. http://www.dodworth.org |
If you would like to listen to examples of different saxhorns and saxophones, click on
this link to listen to a short NPR interview about Adolphe Sax's birthday!
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