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Matt Walters works at Dillon, not Mr. Wilk. Martin lives in Indiana. Having dealt with both, they are both fantastic guys and excellent craftsmen.

arpthark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:22 am Matt Walters works at Dillon, not Mr. Wilk. Martin lives in Indiana. Having dealt with both, they are both fantastic guys and excellent craftsmen.

Martin was before Matt though, right?

Used to be a guy with a Russian name (Sergei or some such?), but I think he mainly did mouthpieces. I believe he was poached from Giardinelli when they moved out of Manhattan. This was a looong time ago.

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:18 am Used to be a guy with a Russian name (Sergei or some such?), but I think he mainly did mouthpieces. I believe he was poached from Giardinelli when they moved out of Manhattan. This was a looong time ago.

I could be wrong, but I think he was around as recently as a decade or a decade and a half ago when Matt was already there, and was doing mouthpiece - such as reshanking mouthpieces, whereby I think he would turn messed up shanks down to cylinders, solder another brass cylinder over a mouthpiece's turned down shank, and then put a nice fresh clean taper onto that soldered-over brass tube. I think I remember another Russian name than that, but I can't remember the name specifically.

I had no idea Martin was at Dillon! Pardon my ignorance. I figured it was a simple typo (as I am often wont to make). Lots of MWs.

Dents Be Gone! wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:58 am

arpthark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:53 am I had no idea Martin was at Dillon! Pardon my ignorance. I figured it was a simple typo (as I am often wont to make). Lots of MWs.

The valves were Meinl Weston. This was waaaaay before MAW valves. Sorry about that!

Martin Wilk, Matt Walters, Meinl-Weston, Moe Wellmansberger, Mirawhone, Man Woberloh, Moger Wobo...

If in fact Martin Wilk has not YET worked at Dillon, then ALL their staff would have worked their before him, which means the guy who owns that tuba is from the future. Beware.

Dents Be Gone! wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:11 am I helped a young tubist yesterday evening with a sticky valve on a custom tuba (various source parts, MW valve set, etc., needed a cleaning…). They said that they were told by the last owner that it was assembled by the repairman before Martin Wilk at Dillon Music. They didn’t know/couldn’t remember his name. For the life of me, I can’t remember his name, either. Suffering from some CRS… Anyone remember?

Bob Schlap(sp)

Dents Be Gone! wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:40 am You fellas are thinking of Vladimir Fridman. He did mouthpieces at Giardinelli, Callet, and then Dillon. This is another guy who did repairs before Martin.

Vlad was good. He refurbed an old HN White 26 mouthpiece I still use.

Yeah. I knew that the Russian person was not the person that was trying to be remembered, but I was addressing Unclebeer.

Dents Be Gone! wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:22 am Yep. I was just giving you both his name.

I appreciate it, and thank you for reminding me.
I avoided guessing, in order to not appear to be a Boris Badinoff stereotypist.

Isn't a stereotypist just a guy who uses two typewriters at once?

windshieldbug wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:47 pm Isn't a stereotypist just a guy who uses two typewriters at once?

No sir.
It's a word that I coined 45 minutes ago.