Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 1995/01

From: CLARK FOBES <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Wells mouthpieces?
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 16:22:42 -0500

You wrote:

>
> I am curious whether anyone has any information about a mouthpiece
>maker named Wells who used to produce mouthpieces in the Chicago area.
I
>have been playing on a Wells which came with my first student horn back
>in 1959, and I recently talked to a classically trained clarinetist who
>grew up in Chicago and who had a mpce custom-made by Wells about 10
years
>ago (apparently he is no longer living). Both are really great
mouthpieces.
>
>Thanks!
>
>With hardly a single reference to either Stolzman or Omer Simeon,
>
>Robert Resnik
>
>I believe that Wells is still alive and works or is associated with the
"Sax Shop" in Evanston, Ill. Call information you may be surprised

Clark W Fobes