Stephen Cottrell’s book ‘The Saxophone’, published by Yale University Press in 2013, has been awarded the Bessaraboff Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society. The citation describes the volume as being “the book in English published in 2013 that best furthers the Society’s purpose of promoting study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.” The award has previously been given to a number of very distinguished scholars in the world of musical instrument scholarship, and nicely coincides with the recent bicentenary celebrations of Adolphe Sax’s birth in November 1814.

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