Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the...
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For Adolphe Sax is the debut album by free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. It was initially released on Brötzmann's Brö label in 1967, and was reissued...
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Saxophone (redirect from Conn-o-sax)
invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s and was patented on 28 June 1846. Sax invented two groups of seven instruments...
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up Sax, SAX, or sax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sax or SAX may refer to: Saxophone (or sax), a family of woodwind instruments Adolphe Sax, inventor...
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Soprano saxophone (redirect from Soprano sax)
woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly...
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Dinant in the Belgian province of Namur. It is dedicated to Adolphe Sax (1814–1894). Sax was a builder of musical instruments and is foremost remembered...
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Bass saxophone (redirect from Bass sax)
baritone saxophone. It was likely the first type of saxophone built by Adolphe Sax, as first observed by Berlioz in 1842. It is a transposing instrument...
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Tenor saxophone (redirect from Tenor sax)
medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones...
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Baritone saxophone (redirect from Baritone sax)
created in 1846 by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax as one of a family of 14 instruments. Sax believed these instruments would provide a useful...
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Subcontrabass saxophone (redirect from Subcontrabass sax)
subcontrabass saxophone is the largest of the family of saxophones that Adolphe Sax described in his 1846 patent. He called it the saxophone bourdon, named...
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Alto saxophone (redirect from Alto sax)
instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the...
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Charles-Joseph Sax (1 February 1790 – 26 April 1865) was a Belgian musical instrument maker. His son was Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, the...
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Sopranino saxophone (redirect from Sopranino sax)
higher than the alto saxophone. A sopranino in F was also described in Adolphe Sax's patent, an octave above an F alto (mezzo-soprano), but there are no...
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first instrument of this sort was designed by Parisian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. He built a bourdon saxhorn in 52′ E♭ and exhibited it at the Paris Exposition...
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sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone) with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto)...
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is a valved brass instrument invented by the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax around 1844. It was designed for the mounted bands of the French military...
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Meuse. The house of Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone located in the street of the same name. A little museum, the Mr Sax's House, pays attention...
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Contrabass saxophone (redirect from Contrabass sax)
by Adolphe Sax, and is included in his saxophone patent of 1846, as well as in Kastner's concurrently published Méthode for saxophone. By 1849, Sax was...
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Adolf (redirect from Adolphe (given name))
singer Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), Belgian astronomer, polymath Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934), French obstetrician and member of parliament Adolphe Sax (1814–1894)...
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C melody saxophone (redirect from C melody sax)
saxophones pitched in C and F intended by the instrument's inventor, Adolphe Sax, for orchestral use. The instrument enjoyed popularity in the early 1900s...
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help to set up a saxophone project Wie is Sax4Pax? with the company Adolphe Sax & Cie, who were also planning to produce a "Ravenscroft Edition". He...
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Benvenuto Cellini. These pieces are now normally performed on F or CC tuba. Adolphe Sax, like Wieprecht, was interested in marketing families of instruments...
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either with a neck strap or an adjustable peg attached to its body. While Adolphe Sax imitated its upturned metal bell in his design of the larger saxophones...
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served as one of the required works for the semi-final round of the Adolphe Sax International Competition for saxophonists. Wanamaker’s Duo Sonata for...
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known as the "simple system". It included a "spectacle key" patented by Adolphe Sax and rollers to improve little-finger movement. After 1861, a "patent...
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Sax is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone Cole Sax, American director Dave Sax, Major League...
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particular for mounted bands. A type of cavalry trombone invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1860s has six valves, instead of the usual three, one for each...
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Sigiswald Kuijken, Josse De Pauw, Luk van Mello and Luk De Konink. Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, also studied at the Brussels Conservatory...
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