In order to understand the commentary and criticism in the further Parts of The Gregory Mouthpiece Saga, here are the excerpts from three 1992 issues of the Saxophone Journal. You can click on any page to enlarge. It may be necessary to right click and open the image in a new tab in order to make the pages large enough to read clearly.
The first installment was called The Gregory Mouthpiece Chronicle, Part 1.
The second and third installments were called The Gregory Mouthpiece Saga. A "chronical" is generally fact based, whereas a "saga" is more fanciful and fictitious. I'm not sure if that is why the titles differ, as Part 1 also contained obvious and undeniable factual errors, the most glaring being the assertion that "M.C. Gregory formed Gale Products, Co, in Hollywood, to carry on the manufacture of Gregory products."
Carl Satzinger, a principal in Gale Products, Inc., is given credit for working on the Master by Gregory, but we now know that Gale Products, Inc. had failed and sold its assets before Rico introduced the Master by Gregory. And it appears that the Master was a just a rebadging of Rico's prior pieces. The facts actually indicate that Gale and Gregory were two separate and unrelated Rico brand names.
The original Saga is mistaken and misleading in that Cesar Tschudin was not an attorney, did not know M.C. Gregory, had formed a partnership with Elmer Beechler, and, when that partnership failed, simply revived the name "Gale" for his subsequent mouthpieces, as is detailed in the blogs, beginning with Part IV. And, spoiler alert, Gale didn't die.
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