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A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax lived in Dinant, Belgium in the 1800s. And he was often bored. "So he daydreamed, especially when he should have been paying attention," Cline-Ransome writes in the book.