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Birth of Adolphe Sax<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant* (Belgium) on November 6, 1814 and was the eldest son of Charles-Joseph Sax (1791-1865), builder of instruments and owner of a factory for wind instruments in Brussels.
\nFather Sax was also royal purveyor for the House of Orange during the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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*The exact place where Adolphe Sax was born is now the experience center \u201cLa Maison de Monsieur SAX\u201d, which one can visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Adolphe Sax started his musical education in 1828 at the Royal School of Music in Brussels. Aside from this general education, he also took clarinet lessons. Playing the clarinet, he took part in a contest at age 15.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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He did his first experiments with the base clarinet: he developed a new 24-valve system, which he demonstrated at the 1835 Industrial Exposition in Brussels and which he patented later. Additionally, Adolphe Sax started work planning a series of new instruments. At the exposition of 1840, he presented 9 inventions, including an organ, a piano-tuning process, and a sound reflection screen.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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The saxophone<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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At the 1841 Industrial Exposition in Brussels, Adolphe Sax demonstrated one of his own inventions for the first time: the saxophone!<\/p>\n

Lieutenant-general count De Rumigny wanted Adolphe Sax to provide the French army with better instruments. Adolphe Sax made the quick decision to move to Paris, which was at that time the musical capital of Europe.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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