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RCS Archives Object of the Month: French horn by Adolphe Sax - Blog | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Music History Monday: Adolphe Sax | Robert Greenberg | Speaker, Composer, Author, Professor, Historian
National Music Museum (NMM) - Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), famed inventor of the saxophone, was a very litigious guy. In 1856, when Pierre-Louis Gautrot patented the instrument shown here, the sarrusophone*, with fingering
![The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Twitter: "Adolphe Sax, inventor of many instruments including the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814. https://t.co/VJmiiFj1GF #SaxophoneDay https://t.co/an1XCVBsMs" / Twitter The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Twitter: "Adolphe Sax, inventor of many instruments including the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814. https://t.co/VJmiiFj1GF #SaxophoneDay https://t.co/an1XCVBsMs" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwmP787XgAQD24i.jpg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Twitter: "Adolphe Sax, inventor of many instruments including the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814. https://t.co/VJmiiFj1GF #SaxophoneDay https://t.co/an1XCVBsMs" / Twitter
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