Six Brown Brothers

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The Six Brown Brothers were a vaudville era saxophone sextet consisting of six brothers. The brothers were, William, Tom, Alec, Percy, Fred and Vern Brown. The brown brothers lived in Linday Ontario until 1893. The first instrumentation consisted of a saxophone Quintet (Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Soprano Sax). But in 1913, they added a second baritone sax. Success in 1912-14 lead to touring to Scotland and elsewhere in Europe.