Ralph Morgan Interview with Clark County Historical Society
Author: David Hoskins
A customer of ours recently discovered this audio file on the Clark County Historical Society’s Website. It contains an interview of Ralph Morgan and his local “cottage” business. The interview takes place in 1992 about 12 years after the founding of the Morgan Mouthpiece Company. At the time, the company was still in the fairly early stages of production and development. By this time, Ralph had already designed the following models:
- Jazz and Classical Clarinet Models
- Classical Saxophone Models
- Jazz Saxophone Medium and Large Chamber Models
- Excalibur Saxophone Medium and Large Chamber Models
In 1992 the source of Morgan Company’s blanks were a combination of in-house milled blanks, Babbitt, Riffault and Zinner blanks. During these early years, the Morgan Company also utilized mouthpiece-making equipment acquired from the Sumner Mouthpiece Company. In the early 1990s, Ralph designed and made molds for the mouthpieces, and those molds were put into production in 1995. From 1995 on, the Morgan Company has controlled the rubber formula and castings of much of the product line. The Morgan Rubber Formula is a pure rubber formula with no synthetic fillers and is essentially the same formula used by mouthpiece companies in the 1920s -1950s.
Enjoy the interview: