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Links to Saxophone Mouthpiece Refacers and Forums
Mouthpiece Refacers | Saxophone Mouthpiece Forums
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Dave Tondi
3233 Heights Dr.
Bellingham WA 98226
mouthpieceheaven@gmail.com
(360) 393-4604
www.DaveTondi.com |
In Dave Tondi's own words, "I'm in the business of sound, one note at a time! It all started years ago when Theo Wanne refaced a mouthpiece for me - it was like 'butter'. Theo graciously took me under his wing and trained me in the art refacing - and quit an amazing art it is."
"I enjoy doing all facets of mouthpiece work including: customizing baffles, chambers and exterior ergonomics; mouthpiece shank and tip repair; as well as general refacing. My commitment to customer satisfaction and my passion for the perfectly crafted mouthpieces keeps me in the business of sound, one note at a time."
Dave prefers to consult with his customers before they send in work, so he knows how to best meet their needs. |
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Mouthpiece Guys
Brian Powell and Erik Greiffenhagen
Erik Greiffenhagen
521 W. Home Road
Springfield, OH 45504
erikgmouthpieceguy@yahoo.com
(937) 631-5769
Brian Powell
5 Rita Street
Dayton, OH 45404
mouthpieceguybrian@yahoo.com
(937) 271-8291
www.mouthpieceguys.com |
Brian Powell and Erik Greiffenhagen have over three decades combined experience in hand-crafting, facing, and finishing woodwind mouthpieces. They are in the unique position of having extensively worked and studied with the legendary Ralph Morgan as well as other master craftsmen and designers.
"Two Heads are Better than One!" Brian and Erik frequently confer and collaborate on mouthpieces posing a particular challenge or that require an innovative solution.
Their prices are very affordable and their turnaround time, on most jobs, is very fast. You can rely on the 'The Mouthpiece Guys' for prompt and honest communication, and reliable service! |
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Bob Carpenter
Bob Carpenter
Bothell, WA
Home Phone (425) 486-8362 |
Veteran mouthpiece technician, Bob Carpenter, has been repairing and refacing mouthpieces for over 15 years. Bob is also the mentor to Theo Wanne and is the one who taught him the trade. It is only because of Bob’s skill and kindness that Theo was able to accomplish what he has done in the mouthpiece world. Bob has provided mouthpieces for a major portion of the professional sax players in the Northwest as well as professionals from around the world.
- Bob measures facing curves in 12 places instead of the usual 5 or 6.
- He makes the table flat at the curve take-off point to provide a positive reed seal.
- Bob makes the facing length and curve match the desired tip opening for the best response and playability.
- Bob can create substantial changes in the sound and response by working with the shape and length of the facing curve as well as baffles, chamber reshaping, wedges, etc.
- Bob’s workmanship looks professional to match that of the top vintage manufacturers.
Bob is seeking to limit refacing work but will continue to reface original or nearly original mouthpieces. He also maintains a few custom mouthpieces for sale. Bob works by appointment only and can be reached at: (425) 486-8362. |
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Bradford Behn
Behn Mouthpieces International
P.O. Box 2650, 103 Noland Court, Lyons CO 80540
bradbehn@hotmail.com
Home 303-823-2410
Cell 801-867-4335
Fax 212-457-6124
www.behnmouthpieces.com
www.clarinetmouthpiece.com |
Bradford Behn has been refacing mouthpieces since 1992. He enlists a logical series of steps to give the customer exactly what is desired while removing the least amount of material. Behn's work is impressively rendered as he makes the extra effort to finish his work beautifully.
He also makes mouthpieces from blanks and his own proprietary rod rubber
which is an exact replica of the 1930's Chedeville hard rod rubber.
To have a mouthpiece refaced or customized please schedule an appointment (in person or over the phone) for a personal interview so he can best meet your unique set of requirements. |
Ed Zentera
http://www.EZmpc.com
PO Box 1952
Troy, MI 48099-1952
Having served hundreds of clients and worked on 1000+ mouthpieces, Ed diligently and eagerly approaches each project with the client's specific objectives in mind. Ed's background as an avid saxophonist and mechanical engineer enables him to apply a unique combination of artistic and scientific talents.
In Ed's own words: "I'm probably like all the other refacers - a mostly normal guy with obsessive/compulsive tendencies who gets off on making other people happy through mouthpiece work, simultaneously torturing myself needlessly through perpetual self-criticism and an incessant drive for continuous improvement. And loving it."
"I figure - without a sense of humor, nothing else really matters."
Players interested in Ed's services can inquire directly through his website:http://www.EZmpc.com. |
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Adam Neiwood
aniewood@yahoo.com
www.Niewood.com |
After the death of Adam's friend Jon Van Wie (an expert saxophone mouthpiece refacer and technician) in April of 2003 Adam started an apprenticeship with Jon's Teacher Ted Klum. Fast forward to the present and Adam is always busy refacing mouthpieces for clients from all over the world.
Adam Niewood is a musician (tenor & soprano saxophone), composer, and mouthpiece craftsman who was brought up in a musical household in New Jersey. He has formally studied at Berkley College of Music, William Paterson University, The Juilliard School, and Manhattan School of music, were he earned a Masters degree in May of 2005. Aside from Adam's own project "The Rabble Rousers," you can hear Adam as a sideman with Bill Goodwin's different bands, Grupa Janke Randalu, Nathan Peck's The Voip, Scott Reeves Band, Id Trio, Matt Brewer, Bill Charlap, Jim McNeely, Rufus Reid, Warren Vache, Vic Juris, Steve Gilmore, Gene Bertoncini, Jeff Tain Watts, Lage Lunde, Aaron Parks, Henry Hey, Tyshawn Sorey, etc.
Contact Information:
Adam prefers to be contacted via email for mouthpiece refacing work. Please email Adam for the current wait-time. In-person consultation at his studio is by appointment only and can be set up through email; please include "Mouthpiece refacing" or "schedule an appointment" in the subject-heading of your email. |
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Emil Anello
933 w. Heritage Ct. #101
Mequon, WI 53092
info@anellomouthpieces.com
262-241-3159
www.anellomouthpieces.com |
Emil Anello began working with mouthpieces over three decades ago and is a veteran tool designer of 35 years of the Square-D Company. Appreciating the importance of precision and accuracy Emil eventually launched his own product line of mouthpieces that is both popular and affordable and utilizes the most popular facings. Emil has refaced thousands of mouthpieces and sold even more. Although Anello Mouthpieces remains a small business, Emil continues to give each musician the personalized attention they desire.
Emil states: "My son (Mike) is now helping me with the business. After all, I'm now in my 87th year and I'm not sure how long I will be able to continue the service. However, I will do it as long as I can. I enjoy keeping myself busy". |
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Mojo Mouthpiece Work - Keith Bradbury
(aka Mojobari)
2925 Crane St.
Vineland, NJ 08361
MojoMouthpiecework@yahoo.com
www.MojoMouthpieceWork.com
yahoo.com group MouthpieceWork |
Mojo offers hand finishing, repairs and refacing of all types of single reed mouthpieces. His web site is unique in that it shows step-by-step progress photos of several mouthpiece refacing jobs.
Sax and Clarinet Mouthpiece Work Website/Forum This is a Yahoo Group site started by Keith Bradbury in 2002. The group is dedicated to sharing information on woodwind mouthpiece making, repair and refacing. Experiences with tools, techniques, materials, successes, and failures are gathered at this location for future reference. There are also extensive links to other mouthpiece related web sites.
Mojo asks that customers include a note when sending in their mouthpiece. He accepts email and Paypal to MojoMouthpieceWork@yahoo.com. |
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Rex Olsen
PO Box 11697
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
olsenclark@msn.com
(206) 842-7879 |
In Rex Olsen’s own words: “I became interested in re-facing and repairing mouthpieces following my business of restoring vintage saxophones. I enjoyed making sax parts that were no longer available and bringing the horns back to good use. Then I picked up some old New York and Florida Otto Links that someone had filed the ends from. One was literally twisted (I've never known how they did that). I rebuilt them and made them play better than the newer pieces I was gigging with. I was hooked! Although I reface all kinds of pieces, usually according to the owner's wish for certain characteristics, I really enjoy fixing the distressed pieces - cracked, broken, filed, stepped on, etc. I engrave saxes, repair/restore, and play when not puzzling about how to fix pieces that someone gave up on. Fun! |
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Wolfe Taninbaum
Focused Facing
4280 Galt Ocean Dr. Apt. 18L
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308
velfka@gmail.com
954 561-7804 |
Wolfe Taninbaum, the designer of the original Bari reeds and mouthpieces was a musician who played under the stage name of Wolfe Tayne for such famous orchestras as Les Brown, Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey. He also sat in with the CBS and NBC orchestras. In 1952 he developed his first synthetic reed. Wolfe's innovations didn't stop there. He also helped create a unique facing for alto and tenor mouthpieces that Otto Link applied to his larger chamber blanks, calling it the "WT."
You can now work one on one with the legendary Wolfe to get your mouthpieces custom faced at his home in Florida. He is also accepting mail-ins.
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Joe Giardullo
SopranoPlanet- Only Mouthpieces for Soprano Saxophone
www.SopranoPlanet.com
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I’ve come to mouthpiece work after 30+ years as a dedicated soprano player.
After playing the same horn and mouthpiece for 26 of those years, something changed in the way I was hearing the music, so I began a journey to find the right horn and the right mouthpiece.
It took 5 years, 25 horns and about 20 mouthpieces. In the end, I found the horn and made the mouthpiece myself. Along the journey, I was helped by a number of fine mouthpiece refacers and manufacturers, but the stock pieces were never right and the refacers were , for all their skills with tenor and alto pieces, not soprano players and didn’t exactly understand things “soprano”.
And, I had one real epiphany in 2004: I got to spend a lot of time with the most famous soprano mouthpiece perhaps of all time: Steve Lacy’s Otto Link 12. That changed everything I thought I knew about soprano mouthpieces.
The end result, 5 years later, is that I make soprano pieces that really play. Regardless of the character of the piece, whether small or large chambered, bright or dark, they are all instantly responsive from bottom to top. I play test them all extensively on multiple horns, because the match of piece to horn is critical. After a long search for the right horn, I’ve come to understand a lot about a lot of different soprano saxophones.
I never intended to be offering these pieces and services, but I’ve come to love it.
My motto is “Nobody should have to play a piece that doesn’t work for them”. .
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