Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2012-08-11 08:15
I'm not sure Karl, but Hans did play and repair bassoons, so really does make sense. He did some amazing fixes to the bassoons. The neck, Bacal? spelling?Well someone sat on one and it was bent badly. He took these assorted size balls of different dimenions, heating the bocal, banged the balls through the bocal with a relatively small hammer and before you know, it was fixed without dents. He also tapped the outside of the bocal to round it and even out the bumps. Pretty amazing. He started off with the smallest ball and worked his way up to the perfect taper of the bacal. For those that are unfamiliar with bocals during the 1970's these were worth around 2000 dollars or more and somewhat equal to the perfect mouthpiece, which in my opinion doesn't exist, because we all play differently. I like Kaspers, Cheds and lately I find the facings of Morgans very intriquing as well as the interesting sound. Mr. Morgan passed on so I haven't played anything new since his death. I am excited enough to order one thanks to Eddie Palanker sending me a few samples.
KDK you are correct about the musical family, however Moenig never said anything to me about his past unless I asked him. Related to your question about the clarinets I can't confirm or deny this. He may have had a brother in Germany but he never talked to me about it. Only his causins and perhaps I very, very, sightly remember him saying his brother passed away earlier. Folks please don't take my word here, again this is from so long ago. I do have a fairly good long term memory but this is a hunch, but more then a guess. I remember him saying a lot of his family remained behind in Germany. We spent a lot of time together hoping I could become a master repairman. I'm very good, but surely not in or close to his league. I take pride in my work for general repair including tuning clarinets, barrels, and undercutting holes for tuning, some cracks, but not his ability to fix other instruments to perfection. Even when repadding horns he was able to get 15 to 20 seconds of suction. I'm lucky to get 15. He threw out a lot of pads. Maybe like reeds. He'd use about 3 out 0f 10.
Hope this helps.
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