NMM 4076. Soprano saxophone in B-flat by by Adolphe Sax, Paris, 1858. Serial number 17849. Engraved vertically on right side of bell:  (in script) N^o 17849 / Saxophone Soprano en si b Breveté / Adolphe Sax à Paris / F^teur de la M^son Mil^re de l’Empereur / [AS monogram]. Straight, one-piece brass body. Fingered range: low B-natural to high E-flat. Dual octave keys. No touchpieces or rollers on E-flat, low C, G-sharp, low C-sharp, or low B keys. Length: 635 mm. Bell diameter: 86 mm. Arne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Endowment Fund, 1986.

Neck, octave key, and mouthpiece

Left-hand keywork	Right-hand keywork

Literature:  André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 40.

Richard Ingham, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 17.

Robert S. Howe, "The Invention and Early Development of the Saxophone, 1840-1855," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 29 (2003), p. 173.

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