Shawna Glendenning was employed at Sax Alley for almost 19 years.  She started with me as an apprentice and has learned everything I could possibly teach her about repair and inspired some new ideas and techniques in our shop as well. She has been THE BEST employee I ever could have hoped for.  She is extremely conscientious, self- motivated and hard working.  You will not only get great repair from her, but also get the benefit of her sparkling personality and attention to detail.  She is THE ONLY saxophone repair tech in this area that I wholeheartedly endorse.  Shawna is the continuation of the heart of Sax Alley which has been to serve our customers to the best of our ability with genuine care and concern for our clients. As an added benefit, Shawna will be servicing your clarinets as well as she is Straubinger trained and certified and also has spent a great deal of time learning with renowned clarinet repair tech, Steve Harris. Once again, Shawna at Shawna’s Woodwind Shop, is THE person to go to for all your saxophone and clarinet repair needs!

From the first message I knew that Shawna was a skilled woodwind technician. She was able to provide me with multiple options to choose from. She even made me videos displaying the sound of each clarinet I was considering. She helped guide me toward a decision that I was very happy with. The clarinet was packed and shipped with the utmost care and the quality of the overhaul and sound of the clarinet was phenomenal! I would absolutely buy again and would have no issue recommending her to friends and family!

Shawna knows the saxophone inside out and upside down. Superb attention to detail and quality craftsmanship. If you love your horn, you would not hesitate to let Shawna bring it back to life.

I've had Shawna work on a number of my saxophones and I'm always blown away by her attention to detail and her ability to truly make each horn function at it's highest capacity. It's like she knows the horn's personality and brings out the best
characteristics in each instrument. Just when I think the horn is playing great, I get it back from Shawna and the horn is better than I would have imagined. Shawna is, hands down, one of the best instrument techs I've ever worked with.

Shawna recently overhauled my Selmer MarkVI tenor, which I bought from Rayburn Music in the 1960s, while I was at Berklee in Boston, first as a student and then as a faculty member, which included being the alto saxophonist in the Berklee Saxophone Quartet with Joe Viola, John LaPorta and Gary Anderson. In those days, while still at Rayburn’s, Emilio was already the “go to” guy for saxophone repairs. In fact, we’d ask him to overhaul new horns before even taking them home. Although I left music for over 30 years for a career for medicine, I got back to playing some time ago and recently, along with Eric Gunnison, Tom Tilton and Andrew Rose, did the Denver Five Points Jazz Festival and have a CD (AFTER THE RAIN), which we recorded as a streaming event during the Covid shutdown. As for Shawna’s overhaul, it was terrific. She leveled the tone holes and fixed the excess play in several side keys in addition to a perfect job with the pads and felts. While it’s been 60 years since I took my tenor out the door of Ray Sternburg’s store (Rayburn’s), the horn has never played better. Also, since Emilio was the only person who overhauled my saxophones in the past, it was a huge relief to find Shawna, who made it like new again. Without reservation and with great enthusiasm, I recommend Shawna for your saxophone repairs.

Shawna is a consummate professional. She is aware of the needs of working musicians. I take my saxes to her after each season and she makes the adjustments to get me ready to excel. She is a meticulous and completely competent technician. She has done brilliant work for me. She is dedicated to her customers and diligent in her duties. She
has made excellent recommendations at every turn. She is easy to talk to and very knowledgeable and experienced in the sale, maintenance, and repair of saxophones. I recommend her without hesitation to those seeking help with their instruments. She also happens to be nice and that helps too. I play over 200 shows a year and feel like I
have found a valuable friend and a true asset to my career in Shawna.

She did a fantastic, complete mechanical restoration of this sax! I could not believe how well all the keys felt in my hands when she handed it to me when it was done. I am not kidding when I say this, it felt as good as any brand new horn today, and I have played a number of them over the years. I was blown away as this horn now has new life! If you ever need
anything done to your sax, contact Shawna at Sax Alley. She is passionate about her work and went above and beyond in my opinion on this horn. Thanks Shawna for greatly improving this particular instrument's story and for blessing me with such great work! The horn plays so good now, it is inspiring and hard to put down! Shawna, you are the best!

I recently had my Yany S880 overhauled at Sax Alley by Shawna. Everyone needs to know that this is one, high quality and professional outfit. Even though I shipped my sax over 1000 miles for service, Shawna kept me in the loop every step of the way. It was almost like my baby was still right next to me. I just received the horn back a couple of days ago and I
was super impressed by Shawna's work. After 40 years or so the keywork of even the finest horns can get a little worn and lose some of the precision it once had. But along with the chemical cleaning, pad treatment, tone hole flattening, Shawna refit the keys so my horn can once again be called a precision instrument. As for how it plays I never sounded better
on soprano sax. Do yourself a favor. Check out Sax Alley. Tim Glesmann and Shawna have been wonderful to work with! I know I'll be going back to them in the future.

Shawna has done a complete pad job on two Tenors for me and worked over several other horns and they all played their best ever after her work was completed! Thanks again for a job well done and I look forward to the little tweaks to occur in the future.

Shawna recently did an overhaul on my Mark VI and I am speechless with how it now plays. It’s always been a beautiful free blowing horn, but now it easily the best horn I’ve ever had the privilege to play. She was also extremely communicative during the whole process, keeping me informed about what she was doing! I love Sax Alley for all my saxophone needs, and trust Shawna completely with my instruments.

Couldn’t be happier with the outcome of the full mechanical overhaul on my Martin. Shawna
does great work and shares the process with you via video journal. Will be bringing my
other horns in the future!