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Alto Saxophone - Image 1
1860
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
Vermillion, United States
Invented about 1840 by Adolphe Sax, from whom the instrument received its name, the saxophone was patented in 1846. The saxophone was based in part on the design of the ophicleide, with a brass body and tone-holes with soldered tone-hole rims that can be closed with padded keys, but played with a wood mouthpiece and reed, rather than a cupped mouthpiece.
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- Title: Alto Saxophone - Image 1
- Creator: Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), G. Leblanc Corp., Kenosha, Wisconsin (restorer)
- Date Created: 1860
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Type: woodwind musical instrument
- Rights: © National Music Museum
- Provenance: Ex colls.: Hewitt A. Waggener, Los Angeles; Cecil Leeson, Muncie, Indiana; Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
- Photo Credit: Bill Willroth, Sr.
- Credit: Transfer from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1994
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