Category: Industry
Essays on the business, craft, and culture of saxophone manufacturing, partnerships, and the industry at large.
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I approached the Otto Link LA expecting a variation on a theme. Every other piece in the current JJ Babbitt (JJB) lineup, the Tone Edge, the FL Tone Edge, the FL STM, carries an explicit lineage back to a historical Otto Link. The LA does not. After exchanging emails directly with JJB President Steve Rorie,…
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By Benjamin Allen and Ellie Allen The first note didn’t surprise me. It startled me. It was a low subtone, the kind you test almost without thinking, a reflex, a way of asking a new mouthpiece who it thinks it is. But this one answered before I finished the question. The sound bloomed immediately, warm…
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Theo Wanne and JJ Babbitt have formed a shared-ownership manufacturing partnership to produce Meyer and Otto Link mouthpieces with CNC precision for the first time in the history of these legendary designs.