What it’s about: The inventor of the saxotromba! Also, the saxtuba, saxhorn, and more consequentially, the saxophone. Name enough things after yourself, and eventually one of them is going to stick.

Google is celebrating the saxophone today, devoting its home page to the musician and instrument maker Adolphe Sax. He was born on this date in 1814 in Belgium; both of Sax’s parents were instrument ...

It is a tiresome, but unfortunately largely accurate, cliché, that it is impossible to name 10 famous Belgians. Jacques Brel, René Magritte and Hergé may spring fairly easily to mind but a more ...

November 6th is the 201st birthday of the Belgian musician and inventor of the saxophone, who is being celebrated by five Google Doodles The Google Doodle on November 6 celebrates inventor of the ...

Adolphe Sax, who revolutionised music with his invention of the saxophone, is finally getting the recognition he is due in his native Belgium, 200 years after his birth. A bicentenary exhibition has ...

New Delhi: The inventor of saxophone, Antoine-Joseph "Adolf" Sax was born on November 6, 1814, in Dinant, Belgium. He died on February 7, 1894 at the age of 79 in Paris, France. Born in a family of ...

Without Sax's creativity the world would have been deprived of great musical talents such as John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, and Kenny G. A pioneer in instrument design, Sax was ahead of his time with ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...

It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its place in history. The Belgian instrument maker, born 201 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1814, patented the ...

Michael Segell discusses his new book, The Devil's Horn. It follows the history of the saxophone through more than 160 years as a controversial classical, jazz and rock instrument. HANSEN: The ...