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Adolphe Sax

Saxophone inventor

Died when: 79 years 90 days (950 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Adolphe Sax

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [?~twan ?oz?f ad?lf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 4 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.

He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the flute and clarinet.

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