Rheuben Allen®
Repairman
For over 40 years Rheuben has been one of the top saxophone & clarinet repairmen in the United States. During his 30 years in Los Angeles his clients included some of the world's most outstanding saxophonist. For a short while he worked with Francios Kloc at Buffet setting up the Buffet clarinets.
Musician
As a founding member of the "Hollywood Clarinet Quartet" Rheuben, Lee Callet, Don Markese and Bev Dahlke performed at the International Clarinet Convention in Flagstaff as guest of the YAMAHA Corporation. The Quartet recorded one CD "On the Cool Side" with original quartets and arrangements by Dan Higgins.
Photography
Photography credits include several CD's for such artist as Dan Higgins, Michael Paulo,
Bev and Greg Smith, Mark Maxwell.
Poster credits include Bobby Shew and Alan Goodman posters for YAMAHA.
Rheuben also has a line of posters created by himself available on this site.
Movie Producer
For a brief while and no one can really understand why....
Rheuben produced some low budget action adventure films.
"Run for the Border" and several other very forgettable films.
Rheuben and his friend Wilt Chamberlain had a film production company called
"100 Point Films" that had several projects in pre-production....
but due to the early death of his friend Wilt the company was discontinued....
Woodwind Designer
Rheuben along with Bob Malone developed and designed the Inter-Change-A-Bore clarinet barrel. It's unique design and use of bronze in the barrel bore gives it the fastest response of any clarinet barrel on the market. The barrel has a very balanced tone color and great intonation.
Rheuben has now turned his focus to the design and manufacturing of new woodwinds & accessories. The first is the design of the new Kenny G line of saxophones. Along with Kenny Rheuben has developed a unique line of saxophones including the new
G-Series and the E-Series Straight Soprano Saxophones.
Educator
Rheuben has written several books for Clarinet & Saxophone.
"Advanced Concepts of the Altissimo"
Co-written with his friend Dan Higgins
"Scales for the Saxophone"
"Daily Studies for the Clarinet"
