Klarinet Archive - Posting 001129.txt from 1997/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Otto Link mouthpieces
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:27:27 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.34
> Subj: Otto Link mouthpieces

> Until quite recently I had been using a Portnoy 3 for jazz playing on a
> Selmer Centered Tone clarinet. I still think it is a marvellous jazz
> mouthpiece, but I am now using a older Otto Link Tone Edge with no
> indication of facing number, and I am even happier with it. saxophone,
> especially tenor players, know Link well, but I have never seen a
> clainet Link before. Does anyone know anything about them--when did thy
> stop making them? Does anyone have access to a Link bass clarinet
> mouthpiece for sale or swap?
>

On West 48th Street in NYC were the music stores and shops that
clarinet players (and others) visited. One of them was "Linx
and Long." It was a small music store located on the second floor
a building opposite Manny's music. It also held music studios
which the key players of the city rented and used for lessons,
snoozing in downtown Manhattan between gigs, and occasionally
having an assignation or two.

Otto Linx was making mouthpieces at around that time and that is
where they were sold from. I never used one. Don't know much
about them.

Now maybe I have the spelling wrong. I always saw it as "Linx"
but perhaps it was "Link's." I'm sure you'll hear from others.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
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