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The Imperfect Saxophone

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  • The Saxophone
    • Woodblock Print of Adolphe Sax, ca. 1867
    • Couesnon & Cie Alto Saxophone, 1900
    • Carl Fischer Contrabass Saxophone, ca. 1909-1930
    • Alto and Tenor Saxophone Mouthpieces, ca. 1920s
    • Frank Holton Tenor Saxophone, ca. 1914-1915
    • J.W. York & Sons Soprano Saxophone, 1923
    • J.W. York Saxophone Fingering Chart, 1922
    • C.G. Conn Bass Saxophone, ca. 1923
    • Henri Selmer “Paris Modele 22” Alto Saxophone, 1923
    • Tom Brown Professional Model Tenor Saxophone, ca. 1926
    • Tom Brown Tenor Saxophone Reed Case, undated
    • C.G. Conn F-Mezzo Soprano Saxophone, ca. 1927-1928
  • Tom Brown
    • Photograph of Tom Brown, April 11, 1917
    • Photograph of Tom Brown, ca. 1910
    • Couesnon & Cie Alto Saxophone, 1900
    • Columbia Recording of American Patrol, Performed by the Brown Brothers, 1911
    • “Saxarella,” composed by Rudy Wiedoeft, 1923
    • Emerson Phonograph Company recording of “12th Street Rag,” performed by the Six Brown Brothers, ca. 1914.
    • It Happens in the Best Regulated Families Comic Strip, December 20, 1918
    • New Victor Records Catalog, September 1916 and Will Rossiter Publisher Royalty Contract, May 1915
    • The Saxophone: Its History and Its Uses Advertising Brochure, 1920
    • Photograph of Paul Whiteman outside the Tom Brown Music Company, Chicago, 1922
    • Tom Brown Topics, September 1926
    • Tom Brown Music Store Program Book, ca. 1920 and Tom Brown Professional Band Instruments Advertisement, ca. 1930
    • Tom Brown Professional Model Tenor Saxophone, ca. 1926
    • Tom Brown Tenor Saxophone Reed Case, undated
  • The Sousa Band
    • “You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet,” arranged by R.A. Halle, 1919
    • Foundation to Saxophone Playing: An Elementary Method, by Ben Vereecken, 1917
    • Frederick K. Monroe Photograph, ca. 1924
    • Sousa Band Saxophone Section Photograph, ca. 1926
    • C.G. Conn Bass Saxophone, ca. 1923

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