OUR STAFF

Meet our exceptional staff and learn a little bit about them

Paul Felzke - Owner / Repairman  

 Paul Felzke is the Owner of Tulsa Band Instruments. He is also our Head Repair Technician. He received his formal repair training at Western Iowa Tech in the late 1970's. He worked at the Sharp and Nichel in Oklahoma City and Conn Keyboards before opening his first repair shop in Tulsa called Felzke Repair. In 1985, he started Tulsa Band Instruments. The store was started as mainly a repair shop, doing repairs for Schools and professional musicians. Paul is THE repairman in Tulsa, and has repaired instruments for David Sanborn, Doc Severinson, Mike Anderson, Will Campbell, and Grady Nichols to name a few. Paul's main instruments are saxophone and flute, but he thinks he can play guitar, oboe, and bassoon.

Ceth Barnett - Store Manager / Trombone Specialist/ Road Sales

Ceth Barnett is a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, with a undergraduate degree in Trombone Performance. His teachers were L. Dale Barnett, Bill Hartman and Dr. Stanley George. Ceth is a freelance trombone player in the Tulsa Area. As a private lesson instructor, he is adjunct faculty at Tulsa Community College. He currently performs with the Tulsa Starlight Band, the Sentimental Journey Big Band and plays bass trombone with the Signature Symphony in Tulsa.   He has also performed with the Tulsa Philharmonic. Artists he has performed with include Clarke Terry, Steve Wiest, Frank Mantooth, The Temptations, Byron Stripling, Carmen, Colin Raye, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Peter Cetera. Ceth worked with Union High School from 1997 to 2005 as part of the visual staff, trombone teacher and taught the Trombone Choir.  He currently works as a consultant at Bartlesville High School, Berryhill High School, Coweta High School and Fossil Ridge High School in Keller, Tx.  He is also the Director of the Womens Basketball Band at Oral Roberts University. Ceth is the Sales Manager at Tulsa Band, and our Brass Specialist.  He has been working at Tulsa Band since 2000.  Ceth currently plays a Conn 88HTG, Bach 16G (circa 1978), a straight King 4B (circa 1960) and a Getzen 1052FDR Bass Trombone.  His mouthpieces of choice are the Schilke 51 and Bach 6 1/2 AL, and Griego 3 NY.

Alex Warrior - Sheet Music Sales / Trumpet Specialist

Alex Warrior (middle) has been working with Tulsa Band since 2005.  He is a graduate of the University of Tulsa with an undergraduate degree in Trumpet Performance and graduate of University of Missouri-Kansas City with a master's degree, also in Trumpet Performance. He has performed with the award winning Fountain City Brass Band, Puccini Festival, Northland Symphony, Kansas City Civic Orchestra, and Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include Ron Predl, Steve Haefner, and Dr. Keith Benjamin. Alex has performed and studied with such notable artists as Charles Geyer, Byron Stripling, Bobby Watson, Conrad Herwig, Eldar Djangirov, Tim Ries, and Walter White. Alex is a sales representative at Tulsa Band. He currently plays a B&S Challenger II/3137, Bach C 229/25H, and Selmer(Paris) Piccolo Trumpet.  Alex is pictured with Terry Warburton of Warburton Mouthpieces and Mike Moore, Tulsa Jazz Trumpeter and teacher at Tulsa Public Schools.

Nick Fernandez- Sales Associate / Percussion Specialist

Nick has been working at Tulsa Band since 2009.  Nick graduated from the University of Arkansas with a music business degree. He has played drums since the age of 9. He was a member of Colts Drum & Bugle Corps in 2006 and has been a part of several drum lines in the past. Nick also participated in several ensembles at the University of Arkansas including: wind symphony, jazz band, percussion ensemble, and steel drum band. He has also played in the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and various local bands in Fayetteville. Nick has taught percussion at Fayetteville High School and Sigler Music Center in Arkansas, and currently teaches percussion at Coweta, Owasso, and Holland Hall.   He also likes fast cars.
Gear:
Tama Drums
Dream Cymbals

Joseph Paul- Rental Accounts / Guitar Sales

Joseph Paul has been working at Tulsa Band since May of 2010. He holds a BA in history from the University of Dallas. Joseph has over ten years experience teaching guitar lessons, both at Tulsa Band Instruments and at Midtown Music School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In high school and college, Joseph studied classical and jazz guitar under Randy Wimer. Joseph is an accomplished singer/songwriter and has appeared on major label recordings with Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Peter Frampton, Vince Gill, Jamie Oldaker, and others. He performs locally in Tulsa and maintains an internet presence at www.josephpaul.org.  He also plays Mandolin.

David Moore- Repairs / Apprentice

David has been repairing instruments at Tulsa Band since 2007.  David loves music and it's pretty much his life. He is a senior at the University of Tulsa, and plays the trumpet in several groups around the tulsa area.  He aspires to one day be as good as his father, Mike Moore, at music, and to be a performing studio musician in New York.  David is also giving private trumpet lessons.

Tait Gripp- Repairs

Tait Gripp is master repairman.  He has been working with us since 2005 in the Repair Shop.  Before Tulsa Band, in 2000, he was an apprentice at Jensens Music in Enid, OK.  Tait is also a fine musician, he plays Tuba, Euphonium and clarinet.  Oh, and he also makes the best cookies EVER!!!