About us:
My name is Mark Welch.
My father Clyde Welch is a laryngectomee. In July 1983 he was
diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent his operation. He is now
82 years old and doing fine. It is my father that you see in the
video.
My father was so determined to talk again that he spent hours and
hours learning esophageal speech and he has been successful in that.
However, he was still not happy with it because of the volume. He
tried different artificial larynx's but he was not happy with them.
When he came across the Tokyo Artificial Larynx he was very
impressed by it. With the Tokyo Artificial Larynx he discovered that
he could control the volume of his voice, and his voice quality was
much better.. And that is the Tokyo Artificial Larynx my father and
I are selling.
As you can hear, my father speaks very well. If you would listen to
him over the phone or in a tape you would not suspect he is a
laryngectomee. My father regained his close to normal voice with the
aid of Tokyo Artificial Larynx. He has been using Tokyo Artificial
Larynx almost 20 years.
For more than a decade my father was the sole distributor of the
Tokyo Artificial Larynx. However, after my mother died in February
of 1999, my father decided that it is time for him to retire from
distributing the Tokyo Artificial Larynx. When my father first
approached me to continue what he left off, I was hesitant mainly
because I am already very busy with my job as service technician for
cash registers. However, after researching on the internet what
products are available for the laryngectomee, I became convinced
that the Tokyo Artificial Larynx was and still is the best pneumatic
artificial larynx so far, and still very affordable. I feel that it
is a shame not to make this product available anymore and to share
with other laryngectomees what my father has achieved — regaining
his close to normal voice with the aid of the Tokyo Artificial
Larynx. This is also my way of honoring my father.

Click Here for an interview I had with my father
in August of 2004
Windows Media
Click Here for a brief video sample in
Real Media