Mbiri ya saxophone
Chimodzi mwa zida zodziwika bwino zamkuwa chimaganiziridwa saxophone. Mbiri ya saxophone ili pafupi zaka 150. Chidacho chinapangidwa ndi Antoine-Joseph Sax wobadwira ku Belgium, yemwe adadziwika kuti Adolphe Sax, mu 1842. Poyamba, saxophone inkagwiritsidwa ntchito m'magulu ankhondo okha. Patapita nthawi, olemba nyimbo monga J. Bizet, M. Ravel, SV Rachmaninov, AK Glazunov ndi AI Khachaturian adachita chidwi ndi chidacho. Chidacho sichinali m'gulu la oimba a symphony. Koma mosasamala kanthu za izi, polira, anawonjezera mitundu yolemera kunyimboyo. M'zaka za zana la 18, saxophone idayamba kugwiritsidwa ntchito ngati jazi.
Popanga saxophone, zitsulo monga mkuwa, siliva, platinamu kapena golide zimagwiritsidwa ntchito. Mapangidwe onse a saxophone ndi ofanana ndi clarinet. Chidacho chili ndi mabowo 24 omveka ndi ma valve 2 omwe amapanga octave. Pakalipano, mitundu 7 ya chida ichi imagwiritsidwa ntchito pamakampani oimba. Pakati pawo, otchuka kwambiri ndi alto, soprano, baritone ndi tenor. Mtundu uliwonse umamveka mosiyanasiyana kuchokera ku C - flat mpaka Fa wa octave yachitatu. Saxophone ili ndi timbre yosiyana, yomwe imafanana ndi phokoso la zida zoimbira kuchokera ku oboe kupita ku clarinet.
M'nyengo yozizira ya 1842, Sachs, atakhala kunyumba, anaika pakamwa pa clarinet kwa ophicleide ndikuyesera kusewera. Atamva zolemba zoyambirira, adatcha chidacho pambuyo pake. Malinga ndi malipoti ena, Sachs adapanga chidachi kale lisanafike tsiku lino. Koma woyambitsayo sanasiye zolemba zilizonse.
Atangopanga kumene, anakumana ndi woimba wamkulu Hector Berlioz. Kukumana ndi Sachs, adabwera ku Paris mwapadera. Kuwonjezera pa kukumana ndi woimbayo, ankafuna kudziwitsa anthu oimba nyimbo zatsopano. Atamva phokosolo, Berlioz anasangalala ndi saxophone. Chidacho chinkatulutsa mawu ndi timbre zachilendo. Wopeka nyimboyo sanamve kulira kotereku m’ziŵiya zilizonse zomwe zinalipo. Sachs adaitanidwa ndi Berlioz kupita ku Conservatory kuti akawonere kafukufuku. Ataimba chida chake chatsopano pamaso pa oimba omwe analipo, adapatsidwa mwayi woimba bass clarinet m'gulu la oimba, koma sanayimbe.
Woyambitsayo adapanga saxophone yoyamba polumikiza lipenga la conical ku bango la clarinet. 
Makina a oboe valve adawonjezedwanso kwa iwo. Nsonga za chidacho zinali zopindika ndipo zinkawoneka ngati chilembo S. Saxophone ankaphatikiza kulira kwa zida zamkuwa ndi zamatabwa.
Pamene anali kukula, anakumana ndi zopinga zambiri. M’zaka za m’ma 1940, pamene chipani cha Nazi chinalamulira dziko la Germany, malamulo analetsa kugwiritsa ntchito saxophone m’gulu la oimba. Kuyambira kumayambiriro kwa zaka za zana la 20, saxophone yakhala yofunika kwambiri pakati pa zida zoimbira zodziwika kwambiri. Patapita nthawi, chidacho chinakhala "mfumu ya nyimbo za jazi."
