Original instruments made by Adolphe Sax, circa 1845
(alto, tenor, baritone, and soprano)

Articles:

As a saxophone teacher, I have written answers to questions that students (and others) have posed about learning to play the saxophone. These miniature articles are available here.

Materials for Students:

Tidbits:

	The saxophone is one of relatively few instruments in use today that was invented, rather than developed over time.  It was invented by Adolphe Sax in Dinant, Belgium in the 1840s.
	January 17, 1876: The saxophone made what many consider to be its first public appearance in the US when it was played by Etta Morgan at New York City's Olympic Theatre.
	The saxophone is keyed for a 2.5 octave range - but an expert player can actually play up to 4 octaves through the use of overtones, also known as harmonics.  Many of the standard concertos in the saxophone repertoire require the player to master this upper register.
	The saxophone family consists of Eb sopranino, Bb soprano, Eb alto, Bb tenor, Eb baritone, and BBb bass.  The sopranino is about 18 inches long and the bass stands about 5 feet high.  The soprano through baritone are the only common instruments. Rare members of the saxophone family, none of which have been manufactured since 1929, include the C soprano, F mezzo-soprano, Conn-o-Sax in F, "C-melody" tenor in C, and the mighty contrabass in EEb. The contrabass stands 6 feet 7 inches high.
	One of the pioneers of classical saxophone playing, in Europe and the United States, was named Sigurd Raschèr. He died 2/25/01 and an overview of his life was published in the New York Times.

	Sigurd Raschèr, one of the early classical saxophone concert artists, with the complete saxophone family (sopranino to contrabass)
	Me with my bass saxophone, 1991
	the 75 participants at the saxophone study week that I organized at Yale in 1992

	The Saxophone Institute held each year at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky Snippets of pieces performed at the institute can be heard here (you will need to scroll halfway down the page to get to a table of pieces)
	A list of all the saxophone compositions by composer Walter Hartley
	Saxophone page by Josh: http://members.xoom.com/iplaysax/history.html
	Saxophone page by David A. Kahl: http://www.transy.edu/homepages/dkahl/saxpage.htm
	Saxophone page by jdumars@saxophone.org, is at http://www.saxophone.org/
	Saxophone page by Cheeseburger, at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3353/index.html includes an incomplete but helpful list of university saxophone teachers
	A great classical saxophone site is at http://www.classicsax.com/ It includes a section called The Adolphe Sax Institute And a chart of the entire saxophone family
	The bimonthly magazine Saxophone Journal has a web site
	Contrabass saxophone fans: see http://www.contrabass.com/pages/cbsax.html Subcontrabass saxophone?
	Saxophone resources on the web from Indiana University
	Sax On the Web
	Sax Gourmet Web Site Old saxophone ads Information about Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone

	Paul Cohen  bio
	John Coltrane discography
	Steven Mauk
	Sigurd Raschèr
	Wildy Zumwalt

	Sigurd Raschèr Saxophone Study Weeks  at University of Southern Missisippi, 1989 at Georgia State University, 1991 at Yale University, 1992
	Saxophone Institute at Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

	Benghazi Sax
	Chicago Saxophone Quartet
	Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
	Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra
	South German Saxophone Orchestra
	Zagreb Saxophone Quartet

	Walter Hartley
	Russell Peck
	Mark Alan Taggart

Saxophone Journal is a monthly magazine with columns by Lee Patrick and Paul Cohen

To the Fore Publishers (classical saxophone works)

	I have several saxophones for sale
	Other sources: just search for the make and model you want, using yahoo, google, etc.
	Many vintage saxophones are available through Ebay
	Find the age of your saxophone on this serial number chart
	Another serial number chart
	Sax Gourmet's chart of Conn models
	Find out what company made your saxophone on this stencil list