The saxophone was developed in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist and clarinetistworking in Par
-is. While still working at his father’s instrument shop in Brussels, Sax began developing an instrument which had the projection of a b
-rass instrument with the mobility of a woodwind. Another priority was to create an instrument which, while similar to the clarinet, wo
-uld overblowat the octave, unlike the clarinet, which rises in pitchby a twelfthwhen overblown; an instrument which over blew at the
octave would have identical fingeringfor both registers. This also allows sax players to make better use of o...