How Similar Was the Original Saxophone to Today’s Design?

Today, there are lots of different pitched saxophones – the main ones being soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. But I always assumed there must have been a first saxophone, that the others developed from. I always wondered whether any of the saxophones we still play are the same key as the original one, or whether the first was in some other key.

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