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Re: What is wrong with Buffet?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-10-30 06:50

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This is so true about Hans. I was lucky and got to watch him repair horns for about a year. We'd sit and smoke a pipe all day. He did have a temper. A bad one and if he got mad at a client he had no issues with throwing him/her out. His repair room was a total mess, boxes everywhere and he knew where everything was. He showed me how to pick out bells and barrels. Mainly by weight. So your friend was correct, the quality was very good. He looked for light weight bells. He had reamers for his barrels and if you want to know the taper it was a reverse taper he put on his barrels. .590" to 570". Sometimes it was slightly different.

He made most of his cork pads out of wine bottles because the cork was softer and it wouldn't make a noise when the keys went down and hit the holes. He made a special punch and used a wooden hammer. He had friends at local bars, bartenders save the corks for him. A small man hunched over.

What happened was very interesting. The wood supply kind of dried out so they found another area in Africa to get the wood. It was still OK. Even in the early 1970's, but then the bore was changed. I cannot tell you how angry Hans was around 1976 or so. Not long after he retired. He used to tune all of the horns using his trusty 67mm barrel with his Chedeville mouthpiece. Undercutting holes, adjusting key heights, everything. As for the lower joint he used Buffet pads then, they were double bladder and he would order them by the size and each size had 100 pads. He designed a suchen tester which he also made for me and when testing pads only 1 out of 5 or so would pass. The other 4 were thrown out. Today's pads are so much better, even the cork pads are soft.

Then he used a tiny piece of electrical tape if the notes were sharp and undercut the notes which were flat. So a horn, with cork pads, complete tuning, Buffet pads with the lower register would cost you about $75. This included reaming out the bell and a special Moennig barrel. By the way, the Moennig barrels made by Buffet today are not right. Save your money. I've measured them. The final test wass evenness of the scales. Each note had to speak the exact same.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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