Klarinet Archive - Posting 001088.txt from 1999/11

From: DPhilpot@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Chedeville, Kaspar, A.Goldbeck
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:35:26 -0500

Mr. Nibbelin: Goldbeck's first name was Arthur. And yes, Frank L. Kaspar,
who had been Goldbeck's partner, bought him out. This information is from a
letter I have from 1953 from Frank L. Kaspar who at the time was
working/living in Ann Arbor, Mich. I had written him concerning metal lined
Goldbeck clarinet mouthpieces. Quote from the letter:"As time went on, there
was a growing demand for silver lined clarinet mouthpieces and while I was in
partnership with Arthur Goldbeck in Chicago, I made about one hundred twenty
five of them, some in gold but mostly in silver. Some were sold under the
name of "Goldbeck & Co. Chicago" and when I bought Mr. Goldbeck's interest in
the business, I made two hundred more of the them which were sold under my
own name." Frank L Kaspar was the older of the two Kaspars, and is now most
often referred to as the "Ann Arbor" Kaspar. His cousin, also Frank Kaspar,
who was younger and also worked for a while for Goldbeck and Frank L., had
his own shop in Chicago when Frank L. Kaspar moved to Ann Arbor. It is the
younger Frank Kaspar whose mouthpieces seem most popular today and were the
ones most played by Marcellus. In his later years the younger Kaspar closed
his shop in the Congress Building in downtown Chicago and moved his business
to his home in Cicero, therefore some of his mouthpieces are marked Chicago,
later ones, Cicero. Hope this information may help you. Doug P.

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