Saxophone shop near Swindon?

[sax_starved]

I will be staying in a rather bland hotel in Swindon for a few days next week and will have quite a lot of 'down time'. I was wondering if anybody knows of a decent shop where I could spend a few hours checking out some tenor mouthpieces. Anything within reasonable driving distance.

 

[Bobby G]

May be a bit of a trek, about 30 miles or so, but if you can make it to Oxford you might visit Allegro.

 

[Moz]

Sax Starved wrote:
I will be staying in a rather bland hotel in Swindon for a few days next week and will have quite a lot of 'down time'. I was wondering if anybody knows of a decent shop where I could spend a few hours checking out some tenor mouthpieces. Anything within reasonable driving distance.

Little bit of a trek but John Packer in Taunton: They have several practice rooms for testing things out and have a large stock of stuff to try and also in Taunton is Gillian Grieg Music where you can spend a week looking at sheet music, playalongs, tutorials, anything really.

Whatever, have fun with your time off.

Moz

 

[sax_starved]

Thanks guys,

I think Taunton is a little too far but I've just had a chat with the owner of Allegro, who seemed very helpful and has loads of different mouthpieces in stock. It's not a leisure break unfortunately but I will have a few hours to spare during one of the days and I can't think of a better way to spend it. I saved a packet buying the Walstein compared to a Yanigasawa so I'm going to treat myself to something special on the mpc front! Can't wait.