Doublereed Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2006/11

From: carlbergjones@-----.mx
Subj: [DR-L] Puechner Bassoon Bocals
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:42:54 -0500

This came across the horn list, and I thought you'd be interested.

At 1:33 PM -0500 11/4/06, MUMFORDHornworks@-----.com wrote:
>2) It aint necessarily so (everybody hum along). Hugh Cooper
>designed the Puechner bassoons and every one that came into the US
>went through his hands. He tweaked them, made sure all the holes
>were the right size etc. At some point he got a couple of bassoons
>that just played terrible no matter what he did, using the bocal in
>the case. Finally he tried them with a Heckel bocal and they played
>just fine. He contacted Puechner and after much dissembling got the
>story. They had wrecked the mandrel for the good bocal (mega hours
>of design time, finally a really great playing bocal). There wasn't
>a drawing but there was a reference mandrel so a copy could be made
>from it, but they took the reference mandrel and used that one for
>production and managed to wreck that one too. After that they got
>an old one out of that old cardboard box behind the counter. Hugh
>tried to recreate the good one but never managed to get it quite as
>good.

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Carlberg Jones
Guanajuato, Gto.
MEXICO

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