the first saxophone of world

This is the mother type saxophone hand made by the inventor"Adolphe SAX". And he indeed played that saxo, how awesome it is ! You can see the low B key is on the right side but not the left side as the present type. Keys are not as many as now on, it's simpler and lighter.

This saxophone has been already 166 years, it was an collection belongs to Jean-Marie Londeix ( see the bio of Londeix). He now gives it to Thailand Mahidol University's museum in thankful that the university agreed to hold a international saxophone competition under his name in each three years.

The Londeix competition is one of the well-known international instrument competition of the world for saxophone players, included another famous one, " the International Adolphe SAX competition" in Dinant, Belgium, these two competitions can be told as the most two important saxophone competitions of the world. Like Chopin piano Competition or Tchaikovsky piano competition to pianists.