![]() Andrew “Mike” Terry’s saxophone solo on the Supremes’ “Where Did Our Love Go” echoes into a ghostly silence. ![]() In this world, the center of Black American culture suddenly vanishes, turning Duke Ellington’s band to ashes like the superheroes at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Let’s imagine, in the manner of Huge Everett’s multiverse hypothesis, 2 that the young Sax is killed by one of his many close calls (pin, poison, fall) and the saxophone is not invented. Sax’s invention was not for its own time, but for the future-the next century, in another country and culture.Ī catalogue showing various Adolphe Sax instruments, including saxhorns, saxophones, and saxotrombas. First appearing in the 1840s, the saxophone drew some interest from composers but never managed to enter European orchestral music in any major way before falling out of fashion by the end of the century. Adolphe Sax is also known for something else: inventing the saxophone. What to make of this? A nineteenth-century Belgian boy appears to have a lot of bad luck. The city of Dinant informs tourists that “Little Sax” was known as “the ghost.” 1 At three, he accidentally drank poisoned water and survived. As a toddler, he fell three stories from a window and somehow managed to survive. ![]() It didn’t take long for his life to take a tragic turn, for it began to seem as if the surrounding world wanted to kill him. Our story begins in the small city of Dinant in southern Belgium, where in 1814 a boy named Adolphe Sax was born. ![]()
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