Sax Biography

Sax was interested not only in the saxophone, he sought to expand the whole family of wind instruments. It was thanks to his inventions that a new musical genre - jazz later appeared, and the saxophone received the title of “King of Jazz”. From father to son: the love of Adolf Sax for music Antoine-Joseph Saks was born in a family where the music was a common thing-his father and mother were engaged in the design of musical instruments.

Since childhood, parents called the boy not an official name, but Adolf.

His father Charles Joseph was a carpenter and made musical instruments. At first it was a piano, and later string and winds. Despite the fact that Charles was self -taught, his violins were in demand among professional musicians. Since the year, he was a court musical master. Already at the age of 16, he independently gathered a flute and a clarinet, and in the year he took part in an industrial exhibition in Brussels, where he played on the tools he made.

He cut them out of the ivory, which was then considered impossible. The jury decided that the summer inventor could not win. Only the medal was offered for the instruments for the instruments, but he abandoned it. Adolf Sax “Little Saxe Square”: how Adolf Saxe was deceiving death if in the creative environment of Adolf Sax everything was well developed, then in his own life only luck helped him.

He was so close to death seven times that he was nicknamed the "Little Saxor-Ghost." His mother even once said that Adolf a child of misfortune, and therefore would not live for a long time. Parents were afraid that he broke his head, but everything was a light bruise. In the same year, Adolf swallowed a large needle and drank sulfuric acid, taking it for milk. Later he fell asleep in the room where the freshly furniture was dry and almost suffocated from the fumes of the varnish.

Once a young Adolf burned a hot plate, from which he had scars left for life. Around then, he fell into the river, not knowing how to swim. He was lucky - the current carried him to the mill, where the boy was helped to get out of the water. At the age of 19, a brick fell on his head, and at 23 he almost died by drinking poor wine. Creating a mouthpiece office: the first saxophone after studying at the Brussels Conservatory, Sax went to Paris.

There, he became interested in the idea of ​​inventing a tool that could be used for military exercises. Adolf developed a collection of Saxgorn, where each tool gave his own timbre. To do this, he made something like a clarinet, replacing the tree with metal. He also adapted the mouthpiece, part of the instrument that the performer applies to his mouth, and changed the section - expanded the tool down and improved several appliances.

It was Hector Berlioz in his article that for the first time called the instrument not a “mouthpiece office”, but a “saxaphone” named of the creator. French and Belgian journalists picked up this name, and it was fixed all over the world. Adolf Sax was faced with difficulties when he wanted to get a patent for a saxophone - other masters envied him, and therefore accused of falsification, claimed that he was not the first to create an instrument, and sued him.

However, in the year the inventor still received a patent.