Author: Douglas
Date: 2006-08-30 14:11
In 1982, Frank Wells was in his last years of mouthpiece production. Most Stowell, Wels, Schneider mouthpieces and the later Wells mouthpieces were from the 50's through the late 70's. The blank was changed, "improved" several times, but, as I recall, was always a Babbitt blank that was custom designed, reviewed by first Stowell and then Wells and then into production. The U shaped window was somewhere in the middle of the production time frame, traditional window before and after. The only pat. that Frank might have applied for so late would have been a taper to the side walls which he had experimented with for many years. And yes...it was pretty much a toss up as to who made the better mouthpiece at the time, Wells or Kaspar. How times have changed!
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