[Phil1]

This guy was definitely a brand name and most certainly a player.

He may not have been the "King of Swing" but he was the "Sultan of Swat".

And oh yeah this cat could really swing.

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ro-rogers_saxophone_babe_ruth_day_of_champions_110211

https://flic.kr/p/144346375
Larrupin Lou's?

 

[dubrosa22]

Cool!

 

[Phil1]

Cool!

Thanks for getting the picture on here.

 

[dubrosa22]

No worries, it's a nice pic
Shame I couldn't see the video - must be region limited?

 

[Phil1]

No worries, it's a nice pic
Shame I couldn't see the video - must be region limited?

Can you access yahoo for Australia?

The video is not of the Babe . Only his memorabilia . There is a short clip of the sax in glass case as part of the entire memorabilia.

I liked the part where they say he played it and didn't worry how he sounded.

 

[Instrument Attic]

So what is it, a Conn?

 

[Instrument Attic]

 

[dctwells]

That picture totally made my day!

 

[tinpalaceroach]

The Big Bambino of baseball and looking carefully again at the alto pictures the lyre holder and table keys look like a Buescher maybe new aristocrat. a New York Yankee aristocrat at that.

 

[Instrument Attic]

Looks like it's a 1927 model Buescher: http://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...esented-to-him-by-paul-whiteman/a/717-82124.s

 

[Instrument Attic]

And the engraver misspelled Paul Whiteman's name?!

 

[olhonker]

I am staring at my 1928 Buescher Gold Plate True Tone and it is exactly identical in every way, only slight change is the engraving, slightly different floral engraving.

 

[olhonker]

My ERROR My horn is a Martin , not a Buescher, but he resemblance is uncanny, the only thing I don't have is a Lyre. Other than that it is an almost exact cop[y of Ruths' horn.

 

[Jazz Is All]

It's a Series 4 TT with the roller G#. This model is the last and the best of the TTs and is the same exact alto I have. Man does that make my year knowing that I play the same model alto that the Babe did. As a New Yorker (although not a Yankee fan) this is really special to me. So thank you so much for this information and the photos. I can't wait to tell my friends in NY about it this summer.

Now if only Willie Mays had played a Martin or Big B, I would be over the moon with happiness. He was my real baseball hero. The only thing that Mickey Mantle played was cards, pill bottles and whiskey glasses.

 

[Paul Cohen]

Some years ago I wrote a short article on Babe Ruth and the Saxophone, based on the first picture in this thread and an article from the Buescher True Tone magazine from the late 1920s. It's available as a pdf for the asking. (I can't figure out how to upload documents here.)

Paul Cohen
[email protected]

 

[chilehed]

Sweet horn, I didn't know the Bambino played.

That gets me wondering: does anyone know what make and model Clyde Barrow played?

 

[Instrument Attic]

Here is the article from Dr. Cohen:

Direct link to album:
https://goo.gl/photos/oGn4wAwNd9vVMQJMA