When the precocious master Adolphe Sax unveiled his "new brass horn" at a Brussels trade show in 1842, a jealous competitor broke it with a savage kick. Sax's reward for inventing the first new instrument Europe had seen in a hundred years was to have his workshop torched, tools stolen, house bombed, and businesses ruined for three and a half decades.
The storied history of the saxophone.
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