{"id":22080,"date":"2010-11-06T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:54:43","slug":"the-father-of-our-iconic-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/the-father-of-our-iconic-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father Of Our Iconic Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 196th year since Adolphe Sax’s birth. If he were alive today, I would like to think that he would be happy to see how popular his saxophones had become, and as Mal-2 pointed out in his comment<\/a> from a couple of days ago, how recognizable they still are\u2014even to the untrained eye.<\/p>\n

While trying to find something that would properly mark this day, I happened to find an interesting photo of the stained glass above his former residence in Dinant, Belgium. It is a close-up of what can be seen on the right of this shot<\/a>, from my post of last November 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

  Stained Glass Over Maison Adolphe Sax Entry Door<\/h3>\n

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     Photography by: Royston Rascals <\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/h6>\n

Phoenix, Arizona has a fairly new museum dedicated to musical instruments. Among its collection, the Musical Instrument Museum<\/a> features what appears to be a set (S, A, T, B, B) of Adolphe Sax original saxophones.<\/p>\n

  Lots of Saxophones<\/h3>\n

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     Photography by: TadDonaghe<\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/h6>\n

It is hard to tell for sure if these horns are all indeed Sax originals however, since one would have to be able to read what the text says. Unfortunately the original of the photo is too small to do that. What makes me a tad curious, is that the bass appears to be in remarkable condition.<\/p>\n

Saxophone historian Pete Hales, the man formerly known as Saxpics, lives just outside Phoenix. He has plans to go to the museum at some point in the future. Work however, keeps interfering with his plans to do so. When he does get the chance to go though, we will get a full report on exactly who built these antique instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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