Fit for a King: An Ivory Clarinet by Charles Joseph Sax — metmuseum.org

Heike Fricke, Former Curatorial Fellow, Department of Musical Instruments Charles Joseph Sax (Belgian, 1790–1865). Clarinet in B-flat, 1830. Ivory, brass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Funds from various donors, 1953 (53.223) «The name Sax is usually connected to Adolphe Sax, the man who achieved immortality with the creation of the saxophone, an instrument he invented around 1840 and patented in 1846. An outstanding and rare example of an ivory clarinet in the Met's collection, however, draws our attention to Charles Joseph Sax, Adolphe's father.»

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