Unhappily, one day a brass bar rebounded and hit Chang in the right eye, blinding him in that eye. But Chang persevered, and after three years of self-taught effort he completed Taiwan's first saxophone, which he later sold to an overseas Chinese from the Philippines. This was the beginning of Houli's remarkable story of saxophone manufacturing.
一次意外中，銅條反彈將他的右眼刺瞎，張連昌卻依舊秉著無比的毅力，以 3 年時間，無師自通地打造出台灣第一把薩克斯風，這把薩克斯風後來賣給一位菲律賓華僑，從此開啟了后里薩克斯風製造的傳奇故事。