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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast Jake and Mathias talking shit about brass instrument making. We are joined on the way by our esteemed colleagues who can tolerate us in small doses aka interviews. besteverbrassmakerspodcast.substack.com

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June 27, 2025 58 mins

Show notes for 27.06.2025https://www.change.org/p/save-the-newark-school-of-musical-instrument-crafts?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLI-55leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp38KutldRo8dglGeWwRSn6McuFYMD_YatjEkma0S6k5J9Q1QfKE-mO7PWfaW_aem_P4S9Qgncy8shyVikpfqM7A

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https://www.bachhaus.de/de/museum/musikinstr...

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WE are back, talking smack, about this and that, and also cork….and carbon fiber sousaphones.

See also:https://jeromewiss.com/en/https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-cork-harvest

https://www.imscork.com

https://www.akustika-nuernberg.de

https://jestaedt-instrumente.dehttps://migma-eg.de/publikationen/1827-die-deutsche-posaune-im-vogtland-9783981981650.html#oilyourgoddamnvalves#besteverbrassinstrumentmakerspodcast

Lee Morgens Side...

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https://jeromewiss.com/en/Jerome joins us to talk about his workshop, future projects and the announcement of the Brass Maker Championship!LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!!!Tally Hall -Taken for a ride-plays us out



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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast is BACK!!!We sat down with Master Serpent Maker Pierre Ribo to discuss all things Serpent and Serpent making. www.serpent-ribo.com/?lang=enMathias reviews Doug Yeo's newish book on the Serpents of the Bate collection in Oxford.www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-…icleidesThe great Christophe Morisset plays us in and out:)Audiomim-2021 – Serpent

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Sorry for the long break, but we are back baby! We discuss events in the brass making world and delve into the fluffy confusion that is felt,its history and uses. We end with our book of the week from the Nazi era and proceed to shit over our beloved colleagues. Same as ever...Come get some.#valvealignment

www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Me…trumente.htmlwww.klang-schmiede.ch/bauErnst Dölling Werkstattbrasstacks.de/in-markneukirch...

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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for Episode 21!!!For what is perhaps the shortest BEBIMP episode ever at 20min, Jake and Orlando do a quick summary and play test of 3 identical Tuba mouthpieces made of 3 different materials. Although the room accoustics were drier than the Sahara, Orlando demonstrates the fine differences between the various materials. Headphones are a MUST!Lump200 plays us out with "My belly ...

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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for its 20th EPISODE!!!Jake and Mathias interview the man with a mission, Mr. Miles O'Malley himself. From starting in the kitchen to his new factory space in Chicago, we discuss bending with pitch, bell spinning, tool making, and most importantly, why you should just go for it. Come get some.

www.omalleyhorns.com/repair-manufacturing-tools

www.seraphinoff.com/about-the-inter…akin...

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THE BEST EVER BRASS INSTRUMENT MAKERS PODCAST returns for Episode 19!! Jake and Mathias "discuss" how they bend pipes without making an expensive whoopsy, how bending has its roots in ancient warfare, and how pancakes arent just tasty, they can bend trumpet bells too.Come get bent



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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for episode Nr.18!!! The wonderful Mike Johnson of Mike Johnson Custom takes us on an epic discussion of brass instrument making in the UK, playing tuba and being a brass tech in South Africa, metalurgy, valve making and how he became a master craftsman. Socks well and truly blown off!!!

Trigger Warning: CIMBASSOS and ORENOPHONES

m-j-c.co.uk/orenmarshall.com/?page_id=48www.piccolo...

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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for its 17th Episode with tubist and researcher Jack Adler-McKean!!!We discuss romantic era performance praxis including what tuba was used for Wagner era premiers and finally come full circle to the modern microtonal feedbackloop generating modern tuba. 1 hour and 30minutes of DAAAMMMMNNNN!!!

Trigger warning: Tuba Centric

www.jackadlermckean.eu/www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop/produc...

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Holy Shitballs we are back for Ep. 16!!We intereview Alma Hummel from the Melton/Meinl Weston factory in Geretsried, Germany.We discuss how she became a brass instrument maker, daily life at Melton, tuba terminology and how even Germans have different words for important components...



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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for its 15th episode!!!Jake and Mathias respond to listeners comments, aka Jake shits on Kanstul tubas, while Mathias talks about products in brass instrument museum conservation and discusses the book: Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation.We end with a short discussion of the Holton MF Firebird trumpet, talking about Larry Ramierez who designed it and Don Ellis who played ...

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Jake and Mathias interview master craftsman Dan Oberloh of Oberloh Woodwind and Brasswind about rebuilding piston valves in incredible detail. We put on our bigboy pants and try to keep up.

Trigger warning: Science

oberloh.com/www.mitutoyo.co.jp/eng/www.sunnen.com/



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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast Ep. 13 08.02.21Jake and Mathias take a moment to get serious about hedge fund investors and their effects on the brass instrument making industry.York of Grand Rapids Michigan, the Martin Band Instrument Co, Vincent Bachs Strike of 2008 and Conn Selmer are discussed.Mathias reviews two super useful german-english and german-english-french dictionaries just for wind instrument makers and...

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The Best EVERAH Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for February 1st 2021!!Jake and Mathias go on a long winded drunken rant about mouthpiece duplication, a mini history of Schmidt mouthpieces, and how we're gonna offer affordable copies of some Al Cass mouthpieces so you have more money for Belgian beerTrigger Warning: Languagewww.schmidt-brass.de/englisch/index.htmwww.mundstueckbau-tilz.de/www.jk-klier.de/en/mouthpieceswww.mu...

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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for its 11th Episode!!!Jake and Mathias talk about getting cancelled by Tubenet, why using aluminium on brass instruments is a BAD idea, regardless the MACK buzzing tool looks tits awesome, Belgian chocolate/waffles and beer and we read exerpts about Bach, Geier and Schilke from Gary Fladmoe's hard to find book. Vincent Bach plays us in and the Chicago Symphony with Schilke hims...

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Tribute and memorial to tubist Howard Johnson: Orlando de Boeykens reminices with Jake and Mathias about his time with Howard together in Germany, Gravity, and we talk about why spending money on a Giddings titanium mouthpiece is better than dropping it on blow and hookers.

www.hojotuba.com/www.melton-meinl-weston.com/en/instrume…bas/2011ta/www.horn-u-copia.net/show.php?selby…%22Mahillon%22www.gwmouthpieces.com/www.ndr.de/orchester_...

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The Best Ever Brass Instrument Makers Podcast returns for its final episode for 2020! Jake and Mathias drool over a Laskey/Pinc C Trumpet, we demo sexy italian made quarter tone valves, Mathias reviews Ron Berndt self-published trumpet book, and we discuss our plans for making 2021 fantabulatious! Hugs to you all for 2021!!

www.laskey.com/

Ron Pinc Brass Repair(630) 889-2189270 Eisenhower Lane North, #8Lombard, IL 60148

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Jake and Mathias return from Corona Exile for Episode 7 18.12.2020This week we give you the low down on Cornford french horns, some christmas "specials-wait no, premiums!", sketching out ideas for appraising vintage brass instruments, flipper offers and lots of other french horn related bullshit.Trigger Warning...language

www.cornford.de/framset_english.htmwww.zylindermaschine.de/www.musik-produktiv.de/www.minibal.dewww.gravuren-ott...

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Jake emerges from Corona lockdown to give the short and sweet on the early 20th century Dutch brass instrument maker, Kessels, and old brass makers never die, they just become museums. Come get some.brassandpipes.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/…d-ca-1930s/www.bidprentjesbank.nl/mathieu/kessels_sr.htmwww.muziekinstrumentenmuseum.nl/index.php/historiewww.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/disp…hp?thisrec=363drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-_7UCb…Ti1ZQT...

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