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SAX, ANTOINE JOSEPH

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SAX, See also:ANTOINE See also:JOSEPH , known as ADOLPHE (1814-1894), maker of musical See also:instruments, was See also:born at See also:Dinant in See also:Belgium on the 6th of See also:November 1814 and died in See also:Paris in 1894. In 1835 he perfected a See also:bass See also:clarinet See also:superior to any that had preceded it. He came to Paris in 1842 and succeeded in interesting many eminent men, including See also:Berlioz and See also:Halevy. He set up a workshop in the See also:Rue St Georges and studied See also:acoustics, discovering a new principle in the manufacture of See also:wind instruments, viz. that it is the proportions given to a See also:column of See also:air vibrating in a sonorous See also:tube, and these alone, that determine the See also:character of the timbre produced: the material of the walls of the tube is not of the slightest importance so See also:long as it offers enough resistance. Together with his See also:genius for See also:mechanical invention Sax seems to have combined a knowledge of self-See also:advertisement, and his name was often prefixed to successful types of See also:instrument for the invention of which he was notprimarily responsible. In 1845 he patented his See also:saxhorn and a See also:family of See also:cylinder instruments called saxotrombas. On the 22nd of See also:June 1846 he registered the See also:saxophone. He also effected various improvements in See also:piston instruments, of which the most important was the substitution of a single ascending piston for a number of descending ones. See J. P. O. Cornettant, Histoire d'un inventeur (186o) ; C.

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Les Inventions Sax (1869).

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