Friday, November 6, 2015

Who Adolphe Sax whose image appears on Google homepage today?

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Today precisely Nov. 6, Google commemorate the birthday of world music artists from Belgium, the Antonie-Joseph Sax, better known by the name of Adolphe Sax. Adolphe Sax The saxophone is a Belgian who was born on November 6, 1814. Adolphe Sax also a wind instrument craftsman and inventor of musical instruments saxophone along with his father Charles Joseph Sax. Sax itself was made in 1841, but the new Adolphe patented his creation in 1846.


Adolphe began to learn how to play and make a flute and clarinet at the Brussels Conservatory in 1842, he went to Paris. There he introduces musical instruments saxophone, a wind instrument made of metal with a blower conical tip made of efforts to improvise a musical instrument bass clarinet.

Saxotromba, Saxhorn, Saxtuba

Charles and Antoine then develop a musical instrument Sakhorn patented in 1845, this instrument is the development of musical instruments Bugle horn and then a musical instrument sakso-tromba, which produces a tone similar to the sound Bugle horn and trumpet and finally they created a musical instrument saktuba.

(NGONOO.com via wikipedia)
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