admin This is going to be a big job! Although this horn is fairly clean physically, there are a few major trouble spots that will provide me with some difficult challenges. There are probably less of these horns in existence than I could count on two hands, so I’m pretty excited to work on it. I’ve …
This was one of those jobs where everything went my way. There is an awful lot in the job of saxophone repair- and probably any job that requires working with aged mechanisms and variable materials- where a certain amount of it just depends on which way the wind blows. You could get a pad seated …
This is a short article from the summer 1950 edition of “The Clarinet”, featuring the actual Otto Link talking about his refacing process. I have an old Otto Link ad for refacing services published at about the same time- the cost to reface a mouthpiece was $3. Of course, “refacing” in this sense is just plugging …
Stohrer Music News, December 2014 Thanks for stopping by! A few things of note are going on around here: 1. I installed a wood stove in my Airstream workshop (see the smoke in the photo above? Wood heat!) and its keeping me nice and warm this winter for just about zero cost since …
How to pronounce the name of the Buescher Band Instrument Company (named after the founder, Gus Buescher) is something that comes up frequently among folks such as myself- saxophone geeks who also like to get things right- and while the story is a little complex, there is what I think is a “right” way to …
Olaf Diegal, a professor of product development at the Lund Universty, has created a partially playable saxophone through additive manufacturing- also known as 3-D printing. Read the original article here and read my short commentary below. While I think this is quite promising and I am zero percent surprised having followed 3D printing for a while …
One of the less common things to see around is a nice mouthpiece facing, freely given. Perhaps this is because refacing is not something you should try lightly (and if you do, prepare to ruin a lot of mouthpieces until you get good at it), or perhaps because the facing curve is not so well …
SOLD This is an exceptionally fine original condition Martin Committee III aka “The Martin” tenor saxophone made in 1946, which currently wears its original pads and is in line for a full overhaul with flat metal resonators. The original lacquer is about as perfect as you see on these older Martins (which have …