Editing Adolphe Sax (section)

==Early life==
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November 1814 in [[Dinant]], in what is now Belgium, to [[Charles-Joseph Sax]] and his wife Marie-Joseph (Masson).<ref>[https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/of-note/2014/ivory-clarinet Fit for a King: An Ivory Clarinet by Charles Joseph Sax].</ref> While his given name was Antoine-Joseph, he was referred to as Adolphe from childhood.<ref name=hubbard-encycl/><ref name="Ingham1998">{{cite book | author=Richard Ingham | title=The Cambridge companion to the saxophone | series=[[Cambridge Companions to Music]] | year=1998 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-59666-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00ingh/page/1 1–2] | url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00ingh/page/1 }}</ref> His father and mother were instrument designers themselves, who made several changes to the design of the [[French horn]]. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of 15. He subsequently studied performance on those two instruments as well as voice at the [[Royal Conservatory of Brussels]].<ref name=hubbard-encycl/><ref name="Ingham1998"/> 

Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead. At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of [[pH|acidic]] water, mistaking it for milk,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kochnitzky |first1=L. |title=Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone |year=1949 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-87233-344-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdMGAwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> and later swallowed a pin. He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side.
Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.<ref name="Dinant"/>

His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live". His neighbors called him "little Sax, the ghost".<ref name="Dinant">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dinant.be/en/inheritance/adolphe-sax|title=Adolphe Sax|access-date=6 November 2015|website=Ville de Dinant|last=Rémy|first=Albert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117230219/http://www.dinant.be/en/inheritance/adolphe-sax|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>