About the Shop
Jeff’s Woodwind Shop is a Baltimore-based repair shop focused on the needs and demands of professional woodwind players. Musicians up and down the East Coast from major symphony orchestras, the nation’s elite military bands, top music schools, as well as internationally touring musicians and countless discerning amateur players have JWS as their first call when something doesn’t feel right with their instrument.
First opened in rural Western NY in 2007, Jeff’s Woodwind Shop serviced woodwinds of all levels. Upon moving to Baltimore in 2012, the demand for Jeff’s services grew so quickly that the focus had to shift to handling professional level instruments only. The majority of traffic through Jeff’s living room is in the form of professional flutists and saxophonists, but players of clarinets or double reeds should not be dissuaded. As all service is done by appointment, there is no worry about awkwardly bumping into the colleague who sits a few chairs down the row who you don’t get along with.
In addition to modern instruments, JWS is one of only a handful of shops in the world to provide repair services to flutes from the critical evolutionary period of the mid-19th century.
Jeff’s Woodwind Shop is also proud to now offer a carefully curated selection of accessories for woodwind players. JWS is a US dealer for Wiseman Cases (London), Marmaduke Featherstrap neckstraps (Japan), WoodwindDesign carbon fiber stands (Holland), and Guru Bags flute bags (Peru). All of these products are of unparalleled quality and made by small businesses focused on the needs of the user, an ethos JWS enthusiastically supports.
Jeff's Woodwind Shop
729 Brookwood Rd
Baltimore, MD 21229
716-430-5296
About Jeff
Jeff Dening has been a professional repair technician for almost 30 years. His musical background comes in the form of a concert saxophonist and pit doubler, and a trained music educator. Jeff came up through the ranks of various music stores around the country, demonstrating acumen and proficiency in repairing all instruments from orchestral strings to percussion, from guitars to brass. Ultimately he found his “happy place” in the confluence of mechanical precision and acoustic application that is the world of handmade flutes.
Jeff has gone on to endeavor to not only improve upon the precision many makers offer in flutes, but to apply those same principles to other woodwind instruments. This quest to continuously drill down on a finer and finer degree of precision has granted Jeff a reputation that brings with it some of the most discriminating and picky musicians to be found, many of whom happily wait more than a year to have work done on their instruments.
Jeff Dening has earned degrees in Music Education and Classical Saxophone Performance from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, studying with Paul Cohen. He is certified to install Straubinger Pads in flutes, piccolos, and clarinets, JS Gold Pads in flutes and saxophones, and is a Muramatsu Authorized Technician. Jeff has multiple certificates from the National Institute of Metalworking Standards (NIMS) and certificates in manual machining, CNC machining, and CNC programming.
When Jeff is not fixing instruments, he can probably be found out on a disc golf course with his wife, Laurie
