SEAWIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

SeaWind Musical Instruments was formed from the partnership of one of Canada's most prolific saxophonists, and one of the leading musical instrument technicians. Phil Dwyer has been a household name in the Canadian jazz scene since he was in his late teens. For most of that time he has played one tenor and alto exclusively... We started bouncing around ideas for what I could do if I needed to replace the SBAs. I knew I was going to have to find a horn that had a similar rich, dark but present sound and the fluid key work to which my fingers had grown accustomed over the years. Claudio pointed out a few design ideas that he had been working on. We made a painstaking study of different brass composites and settled on an alloy found to be the most resonant by ancient Chinese bell makers. Interestingly, considering the colloquial name for musical instruments, this brass mixture was called the ‘axe alloy'.

Also known as: SeaWind Musical Instruments Inc.