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At the front of the museum a brass statue of Sax is seated on a bench.<ref name="Steden" /> The entrance is decorated with earthenware titles. A number of museum pieces are installed at the wall and the ceiling. The limitations |
At the front of the museum a brass statue of Sax is seated on a bench.<ref name="Steden" /> The entrance is decorated with earthenware titles. A number of museum pieces are installed at the wall and the 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.<ref>Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, [http://www.tento.be/OKV-artikel/dinant-feeststemming-klinkende-sax-tentoonstelling-brussel Het huis van mijnheer Sax] {{nl}}</ref> Visitors can listen to a variety of saxophones, as well as to saxophones in a variety of music styles, and are informed with images on a screen. The museum is open at a daily basis and the entrance is free.<ref name="Steden" /> |
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== Adolphe Sax and Dinant == |
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Revision as of 17:08, 13 October 2018
Maison de Monsieur Sax Huis van Sax | |
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| Location | Dinant |
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| Coordinates | 50°15′42.536″N 4°54′39.228″E / 50.26181556°N 4.91089667°E |
| Type | music instrument museums |
| Nearest parking | in the city center |
Mr Sax's House (French: Maison de Monsieur Sax; Dutch Huis van Sax) is a museum in Dinant in the Belgian province of Namur. It is dedicated to Adolphe Sax (1814-1894). Sax was a builder of musical instruments and is formost remembered for his invention of the saxophone.
Interior
At the front of the museum a brass statue of Sax is seated on a bench.[1] The entrance is decorated with earthenware titles. A number of museum pieces are installed at the wall and the 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.[2] Visitors can listen to a variety of saxophones, as well as to saxophones in a variety of music styles, and are informed with images on a screen. The museum is open at a daily basis and the entrance is free.[1]
Adolphe Sax and Dinant
The museum is located in the birthplace of Sax, Dinant, in the French language part of Belgium. Near the museum and on other places in Dinant, art work reminds of his connection with the city. At 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 called Sax and the City.[1]
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 just lived a few years in Dinant and stayed a great part of his live in Paris. He was the predominant supplyer of brass instruments to the army of king William I of the Netherlands, who reigned over Belgium too in those years.[3]
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See also
References
- ^ a b c Steden, Dinant stad van de Sax Template:Nl
- ^ Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, Het huis van mijnheer Sax Template:Nl
- ^ P.W. Akkerman, biografie Template:Nl