for further READING

just a suggestion

on acoustics and sound...

• The Acoustical Foundations of Music
  John Backus, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1977
  (of high level, yet astonishingly accessible)
• The Musicians guide to acoustics
  M. Campbell & C. Greated, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1987
  (general introduction)
• Sounds of Music
  Ch. Taylor, BBC, 1976
  (general introduction)
• Einfürung in die Akustik
  W. Stauder, Verlag Heinrichshofen, 1976

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• Zur Akustik der Blasinstrumente
  Otto Steinkopf, Verlag Moeck, 1979
  (practical, quite accessible, underrated to my mind)
• Acoustical Aspects of Woodwind instruments
  J.C. Nederveen, Frits Knuf, 1969
  (dissertation, scientific)
• De juiste toon
  Jan van de Craats, Epsilon, 2003
  (mathematics of the tone system)

about Sax and the instrument...

• Adolphe Sax, sa vie, son œuvre, ses instruments de musique.
  Malou Haine, éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 1980
  (the biography)

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• Saxophone
  Günter Dullat, Verlag Dullat, 1994
  (historical overview, with a lot about the German speaking countries)
• Fascination Saxophon, Der Saxophonbau auf deutschsprachigem Gebiet
  Günter Dullat, 2016, published by Verien der Freunde u Förderer des Musiekinstrumeten-Museums Markneukirchen.
• Internatinale Petentschriften im Holz– und Metallblasinstrumentenbau
  Saxophone 1, 1846-1973, Europe
  Saxophone 2, 1916-1973, USA
  Günter Dullat, published by Dullat, 1995
• Saxophone, ein Kompendium
  Uwe Ladwig, 5th edition 2017, Germany
  (as the title says: a compendium, not to be missed)
• In search of the Saxophone
  Bryan Manning Kendall, 2022, USA
  (historical overview, paying great attention to the instrument's the early history; with a chapter on acoustics)
• Adolphe Sax, his influence and legacy, a bicentinary conference
  Revue Belge de Musicologie, vol. LXX, 2016
  (proceedings of the conference on the occasion of Sax’s 200th anniversary)
• Die Saxophone, Beitrage zur Bau, Charakteristik u. Geschichte
  Ventzke u. a., Verlag das Musikinstrument, 1979
  (a general introduction in many ways; also acoustically interesting)

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• 100+1 saxen
  Leo van Oostrom, Peter Cox, published by Edition Sax
  (a documention of his own collection together with an historical overview)

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• Ma voix est un Saxophone
  Ernest Ferron, International Music Diffusion, 1996
  (on the repairmans handcraft and acoustics, this book also exists in an English translation)
• Saxophone Manual
  Stephen Howard, published by Haynes, 2009
  (very detailed on the repairmans handcraft, with an astonishing lot of pictures)

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• das Saxophon
  Jaap Kool, Verlag Erwin Bochinsky, 1989, facsimile of the original from 1931
  (sometimes acoustically mistaken and a little outdated, which makes it even more worthwhile to read)
• The Acoustics of the Saxophone from a Phenomenological Perspective
  John Edward Kelly, 2006, published by himself
  (leans heavily on Jaap Kool, only available secondhand or from a library.)