sheldon kirshner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The line is Schmidt, Geyer, Leuchnik (sp?), Lewis (although Lewis' link with Geyer is also direct and personal).
Shel I guess I have to call into question the comment that Steve Lewis' link with Geyer is "direct." Lewis arrived in Chicago a full 2 years after Carl retired (the shop was closed by March 1970 and Carl -age 89- had only showed up 1-2 days a week for several months before that). There is no record nor recollection by anyone associated with the shop that Lewis ever worked in the shop, or in any way worked with Carl. He did visit with Carl at his home in 1972, but that in no way implies a direct (master/apprentice??) link. Many individuals worked in the shop doing repairs and cleanup (primarily to free up Carl to build horns), none of whom, other than Paul Navarro and possibly George Strucel (in the early '50s) and Carl's son Robert (in the mid '30s), actually worked on the new instruments under Carl's direction. Jerry Leichnuik was a master brass worker in his own right when he joined the shop but did not work on the new instruments (which he was perfectly qualified to do), only doing repair work. Remember, this was not a horn factory turning out several instruments a week, this was a one-man shop and Carl was slowing down; he could still build horns, but all the other grunt work (which, by the way, paid the bills) could be done by others. Peter _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
