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| | Saxophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, and jazz, but it was originally intended as both an orchestral and military band instrument. | | | In music written since 1930, only the soprano in B♭, alto in E♭, tenor in B♭ and baritone in E♭ are in common use - these form the typical saxophone sections of concert bands, military bands, and big-band jazz ensembles. | | | Jazz and popular music saxophonists often play on high-baffled mouthpieces. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone
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| | Todd Tucker |
| | Sax conceived the first idea of the saxophone; the fact is that in our military orchestras, the woodwinds do not have the power to compete against our brass choir; in our symphony orchestra, the strings are incapable of being heard concurrently with the winds. | | | Sax’s acoustical knowledge would have told him that achieving an instrument that overblows at the octave with a conical bore (like the saxophone) would destroy the clarinet& characteristic cylindrical bore tone qualities. | | | The acoustic principle of a single reed combined with a conical bore instrument was not Adolphe Sax’s original invention. |
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http://cfaonline.asu.edu/haefer/classes/564/564.papers/tuckertsax.html
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| | Saxophone |
| | Learn from other sax players: Listen to recordings with sax parts, and listen specifically for the saxophone. | | | It’s arguably the easiest of the saxes to play, and has a somewhat lyrical quality. | | | Practicing your sax can be acoustically interesting and artistically challenging, but it will probably be visually dull. |
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http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/saxophone.html
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| | The History of the Saxophone |
| | Sax saw this as an opportunity to show the world how the saxophone could improve the tonal quality in all bands. | | | This gave the sax the loud, obnoxious sound needed for jazz and dance music. | | | He suggested a contest between an army band composed of the original orchestral instrumentation against a band with an instrumentation that included saxophones. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ga/sax99/history.html
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| | Dinant |
| | Progress in technology (recordings, films) has done the rest most admirably, both in the world of jazz and in symphonic and lyrical music and in military and civilian music. | | | A self-taught man, therefore, Charles-Joseph Sax made woodwind and brass instruments, even violins and pianos. | | | It was already around 1850 that modern instrumentation (with the sax) was establishing itself in negro orchestras, which is close to the human voice." In addition, in 1857, Sax's historiographer, Oscar Comettant, already remarked, "The precious inventions of Mr Sax have borne fruit in America as they have done in Europe." |
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http://www.dinant.be/?lg=3&m1=28&m2=88&m3=293
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| | Atavistic Worldwide Peter Brötzmann Sextet/Quartet |
| | FOR ADOLPHE SAX is a roundhouse punch of European free jazz, delivered in 1967 by the saxophonist's first classic trio featuring drummer Sven-Ake Johansson and bassist Peter Kowald. | | | FOR ADOLPHE SAX represents the first installment in UMS's exciting new FMP Archive Edition, which will feature reissues of historic, never-digitized European free music. | | | At last, the reissue of German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's long out-of-print first record, one of the most auspicious debuts of free music, and a trenchant tribute to the inventor of the saxophone. |
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http://www.atavistic.com/artist.cfm?action=2&ThisArtist=62&ItemID=226
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| | The Military band is excellent, even the drummers are real musicians; but the reed instruments that I heard did not seem to me entirely satisfactory; they are lacking in accuracy, and the band conductors of these regiments ought to ask our incomparable constructor Adolphe Sax for some of his clarinets. | | | In the concert of his own works that Berlioz conducted at the Salle Herz, on February 3, 1844, the program contained two first performances: the Carnaval Romain, Overture, and a transcription, "for new instruments of Sax," of a vocal hymn for six different voices, that had been already sung in Marseilles. | | | The concert, if not a material success, was a moral victory for Sax. |
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http://www.sitecenter.dk/hbh/saxophonehistoryadolphsax
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| | .:::.¨¨ III Concurso Internacional Adolphe Sax (DINANT) ¨¨.:::. |
| | The compulsory work to be performed in the final round is a Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra, harp, piano and percussion, entitled Pathetic Story. | | | The final round will be the object of a recording. | | | The CD, collecting the highlights of the prizewinners’ performances, will be edited immediately after the Competition. |
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http://www.adolphesax.com/Dinant/Html-ingles/datosgenerales-in.htm
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| | America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume II |
| | Arizona University Recordings is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of Don Freund's CD "Skyscrapings", Volume X of America's Tribute to Adolphe Sax featuring Otis Murphy and "Fantasy" by Otis Murphy. | | | Pre Order Volume X of America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax featuring Otis Murphy and special guest Phil Barham. | | | America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume II Arizona University Recordings |
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http://www.aurec.com/saxtribute_vol2.htm
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| | Flute and Saxophones by Trevor J James & Co |
| | Once the saxophone had been displayed the military were the only people interested in the instrument, this was because it fitted into the band as it was a transposing instrument, the most common sax was the C melody, this was in concert pitch. | | | "A metal, single reed instrument invented c 1840 by Adolphe Sax. | | | The Saxophone was patented in 1864 after a large musical instrument show in Paris. |
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http://www.worldwind.co.uk/2004/saxophones/history.htm
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| | Music, Art & Dance - Adolphe Sax & the Saxophone |
| | Whichever of all the theories is correct one thing seems certain; Sax was searching for a previously undiscovered sound either in timbre and or volume dynamics. | | | He even began making string instruments including pianos, violins, harps and guitars. | | | Adolphe Sax will always be remembered for his wonderful invention-the Saxophone. |
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http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2003/dec03/issue/mad-adolphe_sax.html
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| | Adolphe Sax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The advances made by Adolphe Sax no doubt leading to the formation of the famous British Brass Band movement who exclusively adopted the saxhorn range. | | | The saxophone was invented for use in military bands. | | | Antoine-Joseph (A.K.A Adolphe) Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 4, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer, best known for inventing the saxophone. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Sax
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| | peter brotzmann group, for adolphe sax |
| | At last, the reissue of German saxophonist Peter Brotzmann's long out-of-print first record, one of the most auspicious debuts of free music, and a trenchant tribute to the inventor of the saxophone. | | | 'For Adolphe Sax' is a roundhouse punch of european free jazz, delivered in 1967 by the saxophonist's first classic trio featuring drummer Sven-Ake Johansson and bassist Peter Kowald. | | | Initially issued in a tiny private run on Brotzmann's own Bro label. |
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http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=7741
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| | Saxophone -- a real horn of plenty |
| | Neatly hooking chapters to visits with contemporary figures (musicians, musicologists, inventors, instrument repairmen), Segell follows the sax through black-and-white jazz bands of the 1920s, swing bands of the '30s, '40s bebop, '50s modernism, '60s avant-garde and into the present, with side trips into rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll. | | | The concept was taken up and enlarged upon by the enormously popular Paul Whiteman, another San Franciscan, who was Hickman's successor and Grofe's eventual employer. | | | Michael Segell, a part-time musician and full-time author and editor, has written a suitably idiosyncratic and beguiling study of Sax's invention: an instrument so insidiously popular and so apparently threatening to the musical and social status quos that it was called by some the devil's horn. |
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/16/RVGUNF4DRE1.DTL
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| | Devian Jazz Page-Saxophone History |
| | They are, from the largest instrument with the lowest sound to the smallest instrument with the highest sound, are bass, baritone, tenor, alto and soprano saxophone. | | | But one day he decided to create an instrument that bridged the gap between the sounds of the string instruments (such as the violin and viola), the sounds of the wodwinds (such as the flute and clarinet) and the sounds of the brass instruments (such as trumpet and tuba) which often overpowered the other instruments. | | | This "battle of the bands" drew a huge crowd and of course Sax's band won. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/devianjazz/history.html
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| | Adolphe Sax Cornet |
| | Prior to 1894, he worked for Adolphe the elder. | | | This is a rare cornet by Adolphe Edouard Sax, Son of the famous instrument inventor. | | | Depending on your interests, this could be a wonderful and rare addition to your collection or, with a little restoration, a great playing instrument. |
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http://www.brasszone.com/saxcornet.htm
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| | Del Pen Collection - Bittner |
| | The Sax collection includes 4 versions, Platinum, Celebration, special and limited edition. | | | Ainu Celebration 18kt Gold FP w/Diamonds on Clip |
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http://www.bittner.com/collectionsBrowse.aspx?Brand=delta&iCollection=58&Title=Del
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| | Sax on the Web > Saxophone Resources |
| | Although composers of classical music have written for it, the instrument has been most effectively used in jazz and popular music, and the number jazz performers risen to fame playing the sax is ever increasing. | | | Historical Excerpts from "ADOLPHE SAX AND HIS SAXOPHONE" by Léon Kochnitzky | | | His invention combined the single reed of the clarinet with the bore and fingering patterns of the oboe, producing unique tonal qualities. |
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http://www.saxontheweb.net/Links.html
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| | Power Line: The joy of sax, once more once |
| | When Segell tracks down saxophone buff Jim Maher on the upper west side of Manhattan, for example, Maher greets him with a 32-page single-spaced manuscript titled "Sax Notes--Mike Segell" that he compiled for him on the earliest uses of the saxophone in dance bands. | | | Adolphe Sax (above) was born on November 6, 1814. | | | Peter Guralnick may be the best writer ever to devote himself to American popular music. |
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/012194.php
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| | Saxophone History Timeline |
| | 1939 - Paul Hindemith composes Sonata (adapted by composer for alto sax and piano) | | | 1967 - DiPasquale Sonata is published for Tenor Sax (Southern Music) | | | 1845 - Sax re-tools military band by replacing oboe, bassoons, and french horns with saxhorns in Bb and Eb, producing a more homogenous sound, his idea is a success |
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http://www2.potsdam.edu/mcallitp/timeline
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| | Bb Bass Saxophone |
| | The first time that a bass saxophone was heard in a concert was on February 3rd, 1844. | | | Berlioz himself had arranged his work "Chant Sacre", originally for voices, for a couple of instruments from the shop of Sax: "a high trumpet in B-Flat, a 'new kind of horn', a bugle, a clarinet, a bass clarinet, and finally a saxophone". | | | The goal Sax had was to create an instrument that: 1. |
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http://www.contrabass.com/pages/basssax.html
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| | Anders Lundegard, classical saxophonist |
| | Lundegård has devoted his career to capturing this original sound. | | | As a young musician, Anders was inspired by an anecdote from the saxophone's early | | | During an informal visit to the workshop of Belgian inventor Adolphe Sax, the Italian composer Rossini proclaimed the sound of the new instrument as "the most tender and pleasing” he had ever heard. |
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http://www.classicalsaxophonist.com
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| | For Adolphe Sax by Peter Brotzmann CD |
| | For Adolphe Sax by Peter Brotzmann CD Artist | | | Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy. | | | Remember to focus your comments on For Adolphe Sax CD. |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/3509049/a/For+Adolphe+Sax.htm
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| | Famous Belgians - Adolphe Sax |
| | Although composers of "serious" music have written for it, the instrument has been most effectively used in jazz and popular music, and numerous jazz perfomers have risen to fame playing the sax. |
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http://www.famousbelgians.net/sax.htm
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| | Historical Background |
| | (including the C Melody sax which became extremely popular in the 1920's) | | | -Adolphe Sax was a remarkable Belgian instrument builder responsible for numerous additional instruments (mainly in the brass family) and improvements on others (namely the clarinet family). | | | However, the program was short lived and re-emerged when Marcel Mule became Professor of Saxophone during the 1940's. |
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http://www2.potsdam.edu/greek/clubs/ProfOrg/CRANE/mcallitp/Background
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| | The Jazz Guide |
| | The International Saxophone Homepage - Pics, CD Reviews, History, Buyers Guide, Links & + | | | Sax on the Web - Saxophone resources: Techniques, instruments and accessories; Contemporary and legendary saxophonists introduced. | | | Dinant, Adolphe Sax's Hometown - A lot of Sax stuff (in French) |
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http://www.sodesigns.com/tjg/instruments_sax.html
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| | SaxophoneHistory |
| | 1845 — Sax successfully re-tools military band arrangements by replacing oboe, bassoons, and french horns with saxophones in Bb and Eb, producing a more homogenous sound. | | | Originally called a saxhorn, since his goal was to create an instrument which was a hybrid possessing woodwind and brass elements. | | | He was musically trained at the Brussels Conservatory in flute and clarinet, and he studied instrument making with his father, Charles. |
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http://www.jlpublishing.com/SaxophoneHistory.htm
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| | Saxophone |
| | He was the son of a musical instrument maker, and thus was exposed early to the details of musical instrument design. | | | He also sought to make an instrument which would bridge between the strings and woodwinds for orchestral playing, and between the woodwinds and brass in the military band setting. | | | Adophe Sax was born on November 6, 1814 in Dinant, Belgium. |
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/sax.html
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| | Adolphe SaxEnglish |
| | From 1858 to his death Sax was director of the Stage Band at the Opera in Paris. | | | Moreover, Sax was a gifted musician on his instruments, numerous pieces were written for him, that nobody else was able to play because they were too hard. | | | Sax grew up in a belgian family of wind instrument makers and most of his time he spent in his fathers workshop. |
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http://www.einsiedl.net/English/AdolpheSax.htm
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| | Adolphe Sax - Search Results - MSN Encarta |
| | Sax, Adolphe (1814-94), Belgian inventor of musical instruments. | | | Search for books about your topic, "Adolphe Sax" | | | He was born Antoine Joseph Sax in Dinant. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/Adolphe_Sax.html
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| | Are you Adolphe Sax? |
| | => Sax, Adolphe Sax -- (a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)) |
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http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/USSR.jsp
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| | SaxHistory |
| | 1845 - Sax replaces oboes, bassoons, and french horns in French military bands with Bb and Eb saxhorns. | | | 1995 Fall - Sax Girl starts playing the tenor saxophone. | | | 1859 September 29 - Sax's son Adolphe Edouard is born. |
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http://www.geocities.com/hucky86/SaxHistory.html
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| | Beethoven and Berlioz Exhibition: Saxophone by Adolphe Sax |
| | Beethoven and Berlioz Exhibition: Saxophone by Adolphe Sax | | | Source: André P. Larson, Beethoven and Berlioz, Paris and Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution and Romance 1789-1848, with essay by John Koster, exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003 (Vermillion: National Music Museum 2003), p. | | | The 1846 patent was for an entire family of saxophones; perhaps it was in that spirit that he also built an entire family of ophicleides about this time. |
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http://www.usd.edu/smm/Exhibitions/BeethovenBerlioz/BBSaxsaxophone.html
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| | The Original Saxophone |
| | Pictures/sounds/etc. used herein may have their own copyright and most are used by permission. | | | I have not found a complete serial number chart for the A.E. Sax or Selmer Adolphe-Sax horns, so those dates are a little iffy. | | | (horns produced by Selmer with the Sax label from 1928-1935) |
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http://www.saxpics.com/sax
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| | Sax's Original Horns |
| | Sax made them for use in French military bands. | | | Adolphe Sax invented and built many instruments in his time. | | | He made the body a conical bore design like the oboe for the reedy quality. |
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http://www.saxlessons.com/originalsaxes.htm
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| | Bassic Sax - Links |
| | Bass Sax.com is a site for bass saxophonists and contains recordings, photographs, a forum, a chat room, and a page on the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax. | | | facing and altissimo fingering charts, vintage sax ads, serial number charts, as well extensive histories on the various brands of vintage horns, and a discussion forum. | | | If you have a sax site that you want listed here, send me an e-mail. |
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http://www.bassic-sax.ca/links.html
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| | Harvard University Press/The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music/Adolphe Sax |
| | Litigation continued for many years, undermining the financial soundness of his firm, which went bankrupt in 1856 and 1873, and perhaps his own health (in 1853-58 he had lip cancer, from which his recovery was deemed miraculous). | | | Browse books by author · title · subject | | | A celebrated open-air test on 22 April 1845 before 22,000 people was decided in his favor, and he was granted a virtual monopoly, naturally resulting in opposition from French makers, who organized to destroy him through, so Sax's supporters claimed, industrial sabotage and by attacking the legitimacy of his patents. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ranhab/sax.html
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| | Peter Brötzmann For Adolphe Sax |
| | For Adolphe Sax takes us back before the his large ensemble projects of Machine Gun (1968) and Chicago Tentet (1997-present). | | | With all the historical references to the 1967 recording For Adolphe Sax aside, this session burns with a passion for life and indefatigalbe vigor for musicmaking, as fresh as any working unit in jazz today. | | | Today the sixty year old is still blowing fire from his horn worldwide. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0702_060.htm
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| | » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday Adolphe Sax |
| | Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxamaphone, was born November 6, 1814. | | | This entry was posted on Monday, November 7th, 2005 at 10:44 am and is filed under Saxophones, Instruments. | | | » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday Adolphe Sax |
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| | Saxophone/template |
| | "Modele 22" 1922 Adolphe Sax instruments still in production. | | | The body of the sax, and the playing characteristics were not changed. | | | 1840 - invented by Antoinne (Adolphe) Sax, a Belgian, in Paris; Until his death in 1894 he spent much time in court defending patents, mostly successful. |
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http://faculty.mansfield.edu/jmurphy/history.html
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| | Sax Saxophones at the National Music Museum |
| | One of four documented Adolphe Sax basses known to survive, this notable acquisition brings to ten the number of original Adolphe Sax saxophones in the Museum's collections. | | | The monogram indicates that the instrument was once part of the inventor's own personal collection, according to the noted Sax scholar, Malou Haine, Curator of the Musée des Instruments de Musique in Brussels. | | | This bass saxophone is of particular interest, since it is stamped with a special Adolphe Sax monogram and number. |
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http://www.usd.edu/smm/cutler6.html
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| | "Adolphe Sax" Model |
| | Around 1928, Selmer bought the Adolphe Sax manufacturing plant from Adolphe-Edward Sax (the inventor of the saxophone's son) and produced a line of saxophones -- released primarily in the UK -- as a "complement" to the Super line of saxophones (s/n 11951 to 18700, and possibly up to the first Balanced Action horns [s/n 21751]). | | | I'd be interested in seeing the octave key mechanism on these horns, but I'd assume that it is a bit less complicated than that of the Supers, particularly the "Cigar Cutter" version of the Super. | | | In both cases, these horns have a Sax serial number on the bell and a Selmer serial number under the low D key or on the body near the thumbrest. |
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http://www.saxpics.com/selmer/selmer_sax.htm
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| | Sax bibliography |
| | Adolphe Sax : 1814-1894 : his life and legacy | | | Ted Nash's Studies in High Harmonics for Tenor and Alto Sax | | | Series title: Art, life and science in Belgium ; no. 13. |
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