I recently did an extensive cleaning and some mechanical work on a Selmer Balanced Action alto saxophone for Chris Guerra, who has brought me several horns to work on in the past year. This Selmer had been his dad’s. Chris’ father, Freddy Guerra, was the youngest member of Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Orchestra. His fate twisted twice in 1943 at the age of twenty. While he stood in a line of recruits boarding a train in Penn Station destined for boot camp down south before being shipped to combat in Europe, an officer tapped him on the shoulder and said ‘come with me, you’ve got different orders’. His friend from Boston, Generoso Graziano, known professionally as Jerry Gray, sent for him to audition on the Yale University campus.
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I recently did an extensive cleaning and some mechanical work on a Selmer Balanced Action alto saxophone for Chris Guerra, who has brought me several horns to work on in the past year. This Selmer had been his dad’s. Chris’ father, Freddy Guerra, was the youngest member of Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Orchestra. His fate twisted twice in 1943 at the age of twenty. While he stood in a line of recruits boarding a train in Penn Station destined for boot camp down south before being shipped to combat in Europe, an officer tapped him on the shoulder and said ‘come with me, you’ve got different orders’. His friend from Boston, Generoso Graziano, known professionally as Jerry Gray, sent for him to audition on the Yale University campus.