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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 ...

(or sax), a family of woodwind instruments

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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 ...

, inventor of the saxophone * Oett M. Mallard (1915–1986), also known as

Sax Mallard Oett M. Mallard (September 2, 1915 – August 29, 1986), also known as Sax Mallard, was a Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Career and later life He worked briefly (April–May 1943) with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, as well a ...

, Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader *

Lincoln Thompson Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax (10 July 1949
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(1949–1999), Jamaican reggae singer, musician and songwriter also known as Sax *

Sax (surname) Sax is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone * Cole Sax, American director * Dave Sax, Major League Baseball player * Emil Sax, Austrian economist * Geoffrey Sax, sometimes credited as Geof ...

Sax Rohmer Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Fu Manchu."Rohmer, Sax" by Jack Adrian in David ...

, pen name of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), English novelist best known for creating the villain Fu Manchu

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* 3534 Sax, an asteroid * Sax, a village in the

Sennwald Sennwald is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Werdenberg (Wahlkreis), Werdenberg in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Sennwald is the ...

municipality in Switzerland *

Sax, Alicante Sax (, locally: . ) is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Vinalopó, province of Alicante, Valencian Community. Toponymy The origin of the name Sax is uncertain, although it has been related to the Latin term saxum (rock), due to the pointed ro ...

, a municipality in Spain * Sax, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community *

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation SAX)

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* Sax (cigarette), an Italian brand * "Sax" (song), a 2015 song released by English recording artist Fleur East *

Seax A ''seax'' (; also sax, sæx, sex; invariant in plural, latinized ''sachsum'') is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons. The name comes f ...

, also spelled sax, an ancient Germanic, single-edged knife *

Simple API for XML SAX (Simple API for XML) is an event-driven online algorithm for lexing and parsing XML documents, with an API developed by the XML-DEV mailing list. SAX provides a mechanism for reading data from an XML document that is an alternative to tha ...

, an event-driven parsing model for XML *Baron of Sax, later Sax-Hohensax, a Swiss title; see

Hohensax Castle Hohensax ( or ) is a ruined castle in the Sennwald municipality in the Switzerland, Swiss canton St. Gallen. The castle was built around 1200 by the Freiherr, barons of House of Sax, Sax, and was destroyed in 1446. In 1248, the castle passed to Ul ...

*ISO 639 code for the

Saa language Sa or Saa language is an Austronesian language spoken in southern Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. It had an estimated 2,500 speakers in the year 2000. Dialects and range Sa has numerous dialects, with no well-established names or boundaries. At a me ...

, spoken in Vanuatu *SA-X, an enemy in the video game ''

Metroid Fusion is a 2002 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, which had developed the previous ''Metroid'' game, ''Super Metroid'' (1994). ''Fusion'' is par ...

'' *SAX, the Bratislava Stock Exchange stock index

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