screamingmorris

Maynard Ferguson's family is selling MF's instruments, music collection, etc.
They want to sell the collection as a whole unit rather than piece-by-piece.

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Maynard Ferguson's Lifetime of Memorabilia
Available In Its Entirety Only
From The Ferguson Family

The Maynard Ferguson Collection includes Maynard's prized horns and mouthpieces, his entire music library, decades of stage and personal clothing, music cases from the 60's British band, decades of his private date books, numerous awards and memorabilia, and personal items given to him by such friends and dignitaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy LaSorda, the King of Thailand, Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, Secretary Of State Colin Powell and national treasure, Willie Nelson.
In addition, the Ferguson Family will consider offers that include the
business rights, publishing, domain name and merchandising rights.
All serious offers and inquires can be emailed using the link below

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The Maynard Ferguson Collection

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Ferguson Family Selling the "Maynard Ferguson Collection"
May 7, 2008
The Ferguson family is looking for a buyer interested in purchasing the Ferguson Collection. This includes horns, mouthpieces, MF's music library, clothing, books, awards, and more. You can view this incredible collection at themaynardfergusoncollection.com.

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MaynardFerguson.com - The Official Web Site of Maynard Ferguson

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MFfan

Thanks, Morris. Really incredible stuff. On one level it would be great to see a small museum set up to exhibit this material for fan's to visit, or some place like the National Music Museum to give it the prominence it deserves. It would sure make more sense to me than Elvis or Graceland, et. al. On another hand, some dedicated , rich, possessive Maynard fan could buy everything and no one would ever see them again, on another hand a buyer could turn around an auction off the stuff and give a lot more folks a chance to own something of the" Boss" history, etc. , or other scenarios.

Evidently the family wants to dispose of everything at once and have organized the event pretty well, I think. Let's hope for the best , respectful disposition of this rather sad chapter , coming up on the 2nd anniversary of his death in August.

screamingmorris

I am in favor of someone setting up a museum.
If there is a Liberace museum, then there sure oughta be a Maynard Ferguson museum.

- Morris

rowuk

I can't help but think that a lot of this stuff is going to end up on E'bay. I sure hope a museum wins!

MFfan

That would be nice. I see on the same subject thread on TH someone posted the family has rejected offers for all the stuff that were in the $600-700 thousand range.