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Re: Everett R. Matson - information!

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-05-10 07:50

I went to Everett Matson's house about 25 years ago for work on miscellaneous mouthpieces. He fixed up a new (but misshapen) Selmer C* bass mouthpiece to the "Ronnie Reuben" (Philadelphia Orchestra) specs. He trued the lay on a well-worn Chicago Kaspar and reduced the tip from 15 to 14. He showed me several of his own mouthpieces, but said I would probably be out of sympathy with them. He was right.

I had a couple of Stowell-Wells-Schneider pieces that I had ruined trying to reface them myself. He put "a facing" on each of them, but he said he found Frank Wells's style so far from what he preferred that he didn't want to do additional work.

He talked about Ralph Lindemann in Chicago and showed me several of the mouthpieces he played (Oehler in brilliant colors).

A fascinating afternoon. His charge was a Selmer Eb mouthpiece I had hanging around.

Ken Shaw

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