{"id":22081,"date":"2010-11-03T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=22081"},"modified":"2010-11-03T09:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:09:46","slug":"a-listing-of-adolphe-adolphe-edouard-saxs-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/a-listing-of-adolphe-adolphe-edouard-saxs-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"A Listing Of Adolphe & Adolphe Edouard Sax’s Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A quartet of Adolphe Sax original saxophones, which are part of the collection at National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I\u00a0noticed the Adolphe Edouard Sax alto saxophone <\/a>on eBay a couple of days ago, I did some research trying to find serial number listings for original Sax instruments. It quickly became obvious that there really weren’t\u00a0charts that were saxophone-specific. As a matter of fact, there seemed to be only 1 source that had gathered information on the Sax brand of musical instruments in general.<\/p>\n

This online source\u2014simply titled List of Adolphe Sax Instruments<\/a>\u2014is written in part by\u00a0Arnold Myers from the University of Edinburgh. The main goal of this chronological listing is to provide:<\/p>\n

…information on all known brass instruments made in Sax’s workshop, all saxophones made by their inventor Antoine Joseph (Adolphe) Sax (1814-94), and all other instruments made by Adolphe Sax in Paris. Some of these are extant, some lost long ago, and some reported in living memory but not now located. Some instruments, such as the Besson & Co. collection (exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890) seem to have disappeared. Such instruments have been included in this list as examples of Sax’s production and in case they come to light in the future. Un-numbered instruments or instruments where we cannot be certain that they were made in the Sax workshop are listed (approximately) in the chronological sequence or at the end.<\/p>\n

Source: List of Adolphe Sax Instruments by Eugenia Mitroulia and Arnold Myers<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The listing also includes instruments made by Adolphe Edouard Sax (1859-1945)\u2014Adolphe’s son, who carried on the family tradition of instrument manufacturing.<\/p>\n

The list provides the following information (where known) on each instrument:<\/p>\n