How do you remove a mandrel that has hills and dips? What you describe
sounds like the result of someone trying to learn mandrel turning. You
can be reasonably assured there was a detail drawing and probably a
template preserving the exact shape.
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To: horn@music.memphis.edu
Sent: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 6:44 AM
Subject: [Hornlist] Re: French Besson Trumpets
I heard the following story from a US Army soldier, and trumpet
player, who was
there when the French Besson factory was liberated from the Germans in
World War
II.
He was a close friend of mine, and played trumpet in the local
symphony for
some thirty years. His son plays trumpet in St. Louis, I'm told. His
name was
Harold Smitheman, and he passed away a couple of years ago.
It seems that after the Besson factory was liberated, one of the US
engineers
came across the leadpipe mandrels that were used in pre war instrument
producion. He noticed that the mandrels did not have an even taper,
but had
both hills and dips in them. Thinking them to be totally usless, the
engineer
put the mandrels in a lathe, smoothed them down to an even taper, and
used them
for some type of project. Thus the French Besson sound was lost to the
world.
Harold, who happened to own a French Besson protested, but rank has
its
privileges, and Harold lost the battle.
Wilbert in SC
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