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by jacquesm 1030 days ago
This took forever to find, I came across this many years ago when I was still playing and I found it fascinating because you spend quite a bit of time as a beginner memorizing the pretty bizarre key sequences required to produce the notes on the chromatic scale. Apparently I wasn't the only person with that gripe, someone designed a sax with a linear key pattern:

https://jsengineering.net/saxes-with-linear-fingering-system...