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    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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  • 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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    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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    Saxhorn (redirect from Sax horn)
    and deep cup-shaped mouthpieces. The saxhorn family was developed by Adolphe Sax, who is also known for creating the saxophone family. The sound of the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Saxtuba (redirect from Sax tuba)
    valved brass wind instrument conceived by the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax around 1845. The design of the instrument was inspired by the ancient...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • auditioned yearly, all play using mouthpieces constructed from Adolphe Sax's original patents. The Sax-Chamber Orchestra comprises typical members of the saxophone...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    longtime friend of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone (they met as students at the Royal School of Music), he encouraged Sax to develop the four...
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  • Superior Conservatory of Music of Paris since 1988. He played in "Quatuor Adolphe Sax Paris" with Jacques Baguet, Bruno Totaro and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt. 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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  • 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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