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 ...

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 ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adolphe Sax, who revolutionised jazz and blues with his invention of the saxophone, is finally getting the recognition he is due ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Adolphe Sax, pictured ca. 1842 Rothman is managing editor at TIME. It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its ...