Toulouse. Octavent to pamper your wind instruments
Do you know the euphonium…? The euphoniumist might tell you that it is a tenor tuba! It is one of the many wind instruments found at Octavent, rue des Blanchers in Toulouse. This store, which opened just 7 years ago, took over from Colos Music, run by Jean-François Recouderc, well known to Toulouse musicians and who was, for many years, the benchmark for wind instruments in the all the south of France with the Atelier des Vents rue Reclusane.
The store on rue des Blanchers welcomes you with an exhibition hall of all kinds of new or second-hand wind instruments ranging from the saxophone to the cornet, passing through the clarinet, the trumpet, the trombone or all forms of flutes and also accessories, anchors, mouthpieces, mouthpieces and mutes, but it also offers two studios and a vaulted cellar for carrying out tests and a maintenance and repair workshop. Pascal Bazillou, who created the brand, first started working at the Colos Music store for 16 years. He is helped by an associate, a salesman Michael and Nathan, an intern. with each his specialty, Patrice specialist saxophone, flute and brass and Pascal specialist clarinet and oboe and they are also experienced musicians. The musicians of the Orchester du Capitole are also loyal customers of the brand because the diversity of its tools as well as the experience of its repairers allow it to be approved by the main brands of wind instruments. But at Octavent not only sells and repairs instruments, Pascal and his associates also organize workshops and events, such as the one that took place at the Crown Plaza last October with trumpeter Adam Rapa as a guest, but also relocated master classes. like the one that took place in Auch last July. Here amateur or professional, small or big everyone finds his account.