It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its place in history. The Belgian instrument maker, born 201 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1814, patented ...

Google is celebrating the saxophone today, devoting its home page to the musician and instrument maker Adolphe Sax. He was born on this date in 1814 in Belgium; both of Sax’s parents were ...

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax lived in Dinant, Belgium in the 1800s. And he was often bored. "So he daydreamed, especially when he should have been paying attention," Cline-Ransome writes in the book.

Thing we were happiest to learn: Sax could invent instruments like nobody’s business.His parents designed and built instruments, notably improving on the design of the French horn.Young Adolphe ...

Thursday marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone. Miles Hoffman explains how an instrument designed for military bands became inextricably linked to jazz.

Adolphe Sax's saxophone. Sax appeal: The highs and lows. by Rhodri Marsden. The poor old saxophone appears to have an over-inflated sense of its own sophistication, and consequently is much maligned.

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota ...

Orchestras hated him. When Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841, he sought to combine the subtlety of woodwinds with the power of big brass in an instrument unlike anything the world had ...

Adolphe Sax and his saxophone ( Leon Kochnitzky) / From the Clarinet D’Amour to the Contra Bass. A History of Large Size Clarinets 1740-1860 (Albert R. Rice) / The saxophone (Stephen Cottrell) / The ...

1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the ...

Visually pivoting from Paul Bunyan to instrument inventor Adolphe Sax might sound like quite a steep creative leap, but in the elegantly joyful style of artist Lydia Nichols, it’s a seamless bridge.

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos.