Mr Sax's House (French: ''Maison de Monsieur Sax''; Dutch: ''Huis van Sax'') is a little museum in

Dinant Dinant () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south ...

in the Belgian province of

Namur Namur (; ; ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration. Namur stands at the confl ...

. It is dedicated to

Adolphe Sax Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigne ...

(1814–1894). Sax was a builder of musical instruments and is foremost remembered for his invention of the

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

Interior

At the front of the House a brass statue of Sax is seated on a bench. The entrance is decorated with earthenware titles. A number of museum pieces are installed on the wall and ceiling. The limitations of the floor space have further been solved interactively, and with a men's high book that introduces visitors to the life of sax. Visitors can listen to a variety of saxophones, as well as to saxophones in a variety of music styles, and are informed by images on a screen. The center is open daily and entrance is free. No official visits are organized. You can come in groups with your own guide.

Adolphe Sax and Dinant

The House is located in the birthplace of Sax, Dinant, in the French language part of Belgium. Near the House and in other places in Dinant, artwork reminds of his connection with the city. On both sides of the Charles de Gaulle Bridge a number of huge artworks of colourful saxophones are presented. The name of the tourist flyer is ''Sax and the City''.Steden
Dinant stad van de Sax
Sax has built more instruments than saxophones alone, and had a factory that was focused on production. In a certain period he employed more than two hundred workers. He lived just a few years in Dinant and stayed a great part of his life in

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. He was the predominant supplier of

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s to the army of king

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, who reigned in Belgium too in those years.P.W. Akkerman
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* {{authority control Museums in Namur (province) Musical instrument museums Biographical museums in Belgium Dinant Saxophones Music museums in Belgium