[Peterogping]

I'm not sure where to post this. Brew Moore's saxophone was found recently in Copenhagen. Here are pictures of the (overhauled) sax as well as pics of the mouthpiece found with the sax.
I will keep the pictures for some time on my website but welcome suggestions as to where to post the pictures more permanently. Wikipedia ??
http://www.saxmundstykker.dk/Brew_Moore_Sax.html

 

[paulwl]

Perhaps Yahoo Flickr? I use it and find it easy and fully featured.

Brew's horn surely has silver-plated keys. The engraving has the tracearound that indicates the whole horn was originally silver-plated.

I once owned a factory lacquered 10M made about 100 units later. It was a tremendous instrument, altho I actually preferred a 1946 silver 10M (which I still have).

 

[Peterogping]

Thanks for the info. Do you mean that the silver plating was removed whereafter the horn was laquered ?

 

[paulwl]

They were buffed to make a bright finish as well as remove the plating (which was mostly satin finish).

Pix of 1945 silver 10M

 

[littlewailer]

Wow. I just read his biography on Wikipedia. I never would have thought while I was walking down those steps in Tivoli that that was where a jazz great had ultimately died.

 

[Bob M]

Otto - Thanks for taking these pictures and posting them here and thanks also for helping to keep the memory of such a great player alive. As you can see from my avatar, I am a big fan of Brew Moore's playing. He was a natural swinger in the same way Zoot Sims was, who unfortunately both died too young and did not leave a large legacy of recordings.

Check out recordings like "Zonky", "Brew's Copenhagen Dew", "No More Brew" and "The Brew Moore Quintet" as leader, as well as the stuff he recorded with trumpeter Tony Fruscella and Cal Tjader for some real swinging stuff.

Paul - Your comment that you suspect that Brew's horn was originally silver plated is an intersting one. When I first saw these pictures I looked and could not find evidence that a lacquered body with either nickle of silver plated keys was an option and I have never seen a picture on such a horn until this one.

 

[mephipps]

No smoking within 20 feet........

 

[paulwl]

Paul - Your comment that you suspect that Brew's horn was originally silver plated is an intersting one. When I first saw these pictures I looked and could not find evidence that a lacquered body with either nickle of silver plated keys was an option and I have never seen a picture on such a horn until this one.

Silver-keyed horns turn up now and then in the vintage market, always re-dos. Of course Conn switched to nickel-silver keys, plated in pure nickel, on the 6M and 10M in the late '50s.

 

[Bob M]

Paul - I was too quick typing and should have noted that in the mid- late- 50's Conn did switch to nickel plated keys for the 10M. The bottom line is that I have not been able to find any evidence that a silver key, lacquered finish was a regular offering in the 30's or 40's, so the horn must be pretty rare. BTW, my 10M is in the same series as the one in your linked pictures (s/n 310,xxx). Like that one the silver plating on mine is virtually intact, although Ernie Sola has done some pretty substantial modifications to improve the ergonomics.

 

[paulwl]

Brew's response to a loud audience is worth memorializing.

 

[evan1]

Otto - Thanks for taking these pictures and posting them here and thanks also for helping to keep the memory of such a great player alive. As you can see from my avatar, I am a big fan of Brew Moore's playing. He was a natural swinger in the same way Zoot Sims was, who unfortunately both died too young and did not leave a large legacy of recordings.

Check out recordings like "Zonky", "Brew's Copenhagen Dew", "No More Brew" and "The Brew Moore Quintet" as leader, as well as the stuff he recorded with trumpeter Tony Fruscella and Cal Tjader for some real swinging stuff.

Paul - Your comment that you suspect that Brew's horn was originally silver plated is an intersting one. When I first saw these pictures I looked and could not find evidence that a lacquered body with either nickle of silver plated keys was an option and I have never seen a picture on such a horn until this one.

Bob thanks for that I was totally unaware of his playing and wondering "who is he?". The horn looks great, but how could ANYBODY play on those left hand stacks ? What a nightmare.

 

[Bob M]

Paul - I have that on the LP....it is pretty funny!

 

[Bob M]

Evan - I have owned several 10Ms, in addition to the one that I have now. I've never found the left hand stack keys all that difficult. If you're used to the layout of a Selmer, no doubt the ergonomics take a bit of getting used to, but are actually really good. In addition to Brew, check out Sal Nistico on some of Woody Herman's stuff from the early 60's. In fact there is a thread in "Makes & Models" with some examples. They are great horns

 

[evan1]

Thanks Bob. Youre right. Its all about repetition and getting used to them. Might i say that they look difficult IMO compared to what have now.