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          This Guide Book for the Saxophone Teacher will provide you with a different approach to teaching music, one that includes the creativity of the student..

          Saxophone History Timeline

          Materials Compiled by:

          Jeffrey Heisler (Oakland University), Timothy McAllister (Northwestern University / University of Michigan), Andrew Stoker, Fobert Faub, John Jeanneret and Rebecca Blow (SUNY Potsdam), Serge Bertocchi, Alex Sellers, and Steve Stusek (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

          1814 - Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax born 6 November, Dinant, Belgium, studies instrument-making with his father, Charles-Joseph (1791-1865)

          1834 - Adolphe Sax perfects bass-clarinet design; *improves keywork and construction

          1842 - Sax arrives in Paris

          1842 - 12 June--Sax's close friend Hector Berlioz writes article in Paris magazine Journal des Debats describing Sax's newest invention--the saxophone

          1844 - 3 February--Berlioz conducts concert which features an arrangement of his choral work Chant Sacre which includes saxophone

          1844 - December--Saxophone makes its orchestral debut in Georges Kastner's opera Last King of Juda; Paris Conservatory