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On account of the German-sounding name of its inventor-= and also a not unnatural need to conserve brass for war needs- cartridges, etc, the Saxophone was BANNED for the duration of the War ( WW-I) in Czarist Russia. Christmas trees also came under ban commencing 1916 because of their Germanic origins (also a big campaign was going on, which the Russians lost, called Tannenberg or Pine Mountain- a sneeze away from Tannenbaum). Adolph Sax was a Belgian national who lived most of his life- In France, despite ultra-Teutonic sounding first and last names.
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Two fact about the saxophone?
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