The saxophone was first created in 1846, by a German man known by the name Adolph Sax. Adolph was the first born of eleven children, and followed his father, Charles Joseph Sax into the world of music. Charles Joseph Sax was a manufacturer of brass at woodwind musical instruments. He was appointed the music instrument manufacturer of King William I of the Lowlands. Adolph was able to drill a clarinet's body properly and twirl the cup of a horn at age six. He became a pupil of Brussels Conservatory where he learned the flute as a primary instrument. Bender, the conductor of a famous Belgian military band, taught Adolph how to play clarinet. He sent two flutes and a clarinet made of ivory to the Brussels Industrial Exhibition at age fifteen, in the year 1830. At age twenty, Adolphe Sax invented the bass-clarinet. To be exact, he recreated the bass-clarinet, improving upon ideas that had been used as a foundation for the instrument. Adolph's new and improved bass-clarinet caused trouble in the Brussels Grande Harmonie. One jealous artist that played on the old bass-clarinet threatened to quit the orchestra if it adopted the instrument built by Adolph Sax. They dueled the two bass-clarinets by each playing in turn. Adolph's bass-clarinet was triumphant overall. As it is stated earlier, Adolph Sax created the saxophone in 1846 formally by patent. The actual patent was obtained on June 28, 1846. As with most inventions, this was not the first year of the saxophone's exsistance, and there were, infact, demonstrations of this new instrument in 1844.