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New brass and woodwinds products along with strategic moves were highlights of the B&O market at NAMM. — By Ed Enright N ews of ambitious business maneuvers and arrangement that has Theo Wanne doing the finishing detail on all new Otto Link and Meyer mouthpieces.
on one side,” said Steve Rorie, JJ Babbitt CEO. “There are any number of things we’ve been guilty of in the past, and all of that goes away with the CNC precision machining Theo’s team will be using.” Wanne added, “Once we do our precision machining, they go back to Babbitt, where
major product introductions in the band and orchestra market made for an exciting NAMM show this year. Saxophone mouthpiece makers Theo Wanne and JJ Babbitt shared a booth in their new capacity as business partners, an
“If there are complaints about our products it’s that the rails aren’t consistent from one side to the other, or that the tip rail isn’t even or that the baffle has kind of a teardrop falloff
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