Adolphe Sax

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Saxophone produced by Sax Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax （French: [ɑ̃twan ʒɔzɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894） was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.
He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba.
He played the flute and clarinet.
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November 1814, in Dinant, in what is now Belgium, to Charles-Joseph Sax and his wife Marie-Joseph （Masson）.
While his given name was Antoine-Joseph, he was referred to as Adolphe from childhood.
His father and mother were instrument designers themselves, who made several changes to the design of the French horn.
Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of 15.
He subsequently studied performance on those two instruments as well as voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Sax faced many brushes with death.
As a child he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead.
At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of acidic water mistaking it for milk, and later swallowed a pin.
He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion, and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side.
Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying.
Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.
His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live." His neighbors called him "little Sax, the ghost".
After leaving the Royal Conservatory of Brus...