Karel Goetghebeur #2

Karel Goetghebeur (1978), born in Ostend, is the founder and driving force behind Adolphe Sax & Cie®. As a secondary occupation, he expanded his saxophone business after he had obtained the exclusive distribution rights of a saxophone brand for Europe. In 2010 he took the plunge and decided to go for the saxophones full-time.

Karel Goetghebeur is the owner and driving force of the internationally known Belgian saxophone brand “Adolphe Sax & Cie”.

In 2014 Karel came up with the idea to recycle artillery shells from the world wars and turn them into saxophones.

After a long journey with a lot of obstacles, he was finally able to officially announce the Sax4Pax project days before his initial deadline which was 

Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. –

— Isaiah 2:3
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In January 1978, Scottish singer-musician Gerry Rafferty released his first solo material since 1972 and first material of any kind since the demise of Stealers Wheel in 1975. As a then-unheralded session musician, Ravenscroft was asked to play the saxophone on the album City to City (1978). His contribution included the sax riff on the best-known song from the album and of Rafferty’s career, “Baker Street”

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The Lee–Enfield is a bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that served as the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century.

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