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Robert Webster has been working as a machinist and a toolmaker for over thirty years. During this time Bob has become a master at his trade and is comfortable making any object imaginable. Bob's demanding profession requires him to make high precision tools with machined tolerances that are literally less than a split hair.
Ivan Giddings has his masters in tuba performance from Pennsylvania State University, and is a tuba teacher and performer by trade. Teaching at the University of Puget Sound Community music department, a full time private low brass studio, and performing in numerous ensembles in the Puget Sound area. In his efforts to improve response, articulation, and overall ease of playing he was led to mouthpiece design, along with instrument repair, and modification. The teachers that have most influenced Ivan are Robert Harold, Rex Turner, Marty Erickson, and Arnold Jacobs.
Bob and Ivan met in November 2000, each with their first prototype stainless steel mouthpieces. They were impressed with what the other could do, and the Giddings & Webster collaboration began. After three years of discussion, prototypes, research and development, and continued improvement of their mouthpieces they finally feel they have created a unique line of mouthpieces. These mouthpieces sound, respond, and play better than what is currently on the market.
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