Patterson Hornworks


Home

Horns

Custom Horns
Hybrid Conversions
Factory Built Horns
Horns for Sale

Mellophone Upgrades

Custom Work & Repairs

Mouthpieces & Accessories

Newsletter

Endorsements

Links

About Us

Contact Us






Custom Work & Repairs:





Leadpipes | Magic Disks | Repairs


Leadpipes

There's been a lot of talk about our new leadpipe and quite a number of top artists are now using it. Most players find improvements in tonal center, evenness throughout all ranges as well as improved intonation.

We have made leadpipes for the following horns with very excellent results. If your instrument is not listed, we invite you to contact us as we are continually developing new models.


  • Conn: 8D, 9D, 11D, 12D, 6D
  • Yamaha: 667, 867, 668, 868, 861, 862
  • Holton: All double horn models
  • Hoyer: All models
  • Alexander: single Bb
  • Kruspe: All models
  • Paxman: mdl. 20, 25, 40, 60
  • Berg: All models

We offer our leadpipes in yellow brass, rose brass or our special alloy nickel silver.

top of page


Magic Disks

We've had very good responses from users of our annealed tuning slides and "magical" disks both of which in addition to our leadpipe, help to even the response and center the tone making the 8D into a much more expressive instrument. We have a two step annealing process which is unlike any other annealing and gives us superior results.

"I have tried the disc under the 4th valve, and am truly amazed! It somehow defies logic, but there is definitely a sort of extra focus and clarity with this in place. What a very strange and inexplicable 'alchemy'"

- Tony Halstead, London, on why he copied our idea and
incorporated it into the "tone blobs!"

top of page


Repairs

We offer a complete list of repairs including complete restorations of historical instruments. We strive to bring you the highest quality workmanship for a reasonable price.

top of page




Website Design: Canfield Design Studios, Inc.
This website and all content copyright ©2009 Patterson Hornworks, LLC