November | Friday | 06, 2015 :: Google Celebrates Saxophone Creator Adolphe Sax’s 201st Birthday with a Doodle. The doodle features an illustration of Sax playing his patented saxophone against the google logo, which has been stylistically fashioned in golden italic letters surrounded by a fancy frame.
Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax (6 November 1814 – c. 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone. He played the flute and clarinet, and his other creations are the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba.Antoine-Joseph.
Sax was born on November 6, 1814 in Dinant, Belgium to Mr. and Mrs. Charles-Joseph Sax. While his first name was Antoine, he was referred to as Adolphe from childhood. His father and mother were instrument designers themselves, who made several changes to the design of the horn. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of 15. He subsequently studied performance on those two instruments as well as voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
