[TPIN] "True Bach" horns being built

[Steve B]

Interestingly enough I was out at Dillon's music a
week or so ago and they had some of the new horns. 
There were a couple of players in from NYC
specifically looking at the  light weight 72.  They
were very impressed..  I tooted on a couple as well.. 
They were very nice horns.  

Steve
--- Thomas Meacham <tmeacham at gci.net> wrote:

> This item from the Elkhart, Indiana Truth newspaper:
> 
> _____
> 
> Horns touted as 'True Bach'
> Instruments manufactured by replacement workers
> debut
> 
> Published: Friday, January 19, 2007 -- The Truth, C1
> Last updated: 1/18/2007 11:37:59 PM
> By Marilyn Odendahl
> Truth Staff Writer
> ANAHEIM, Calif. -- With thousands of music industry
> professionals 
> attending the 2007 National Association of Music
> Manufacturers trade 
> show, Conn-Selmer is unveiling the horns being built
> by the replacement 
> workers at its Vincent Bach facility.
> 
> In April 2006, the members of United Auto Workers
> Local 364 went on 
> strike at the Vincent Bach plant in Elkhart, Ind.
> The union walked out 
> after rejecting a contract that, among other things,
> called for wage 
> cuts, insurance rate hikes, mandatory overtime and
> did not clearly 
> state shop rules.
> 
> When the strike began, Conn-Selmer reviewed every
> process and procedure 
> used to make the Bach trumpet, explained Rich
> Breske, spokesman for the 
> musical instrument maker. By comparing how the
> Vincent Bach facility 
> made the horns with the way the instrument's
> namesake actually built 
> the trumpets in the early 20th century, changes were
> made and the 
> company is now touting the new construction methods
> and new 
> Stradivarius horns as "True Bach."
> 
> "We had an opportunity" with the strike to look at
> how the Bach horns 
> were being made, Breske said. "We really didn't want
> the opportunity 
> but we took it."
> 
> A press release about the new horns said production
> supervisors in the 
> Vincent Bach facility took over all operations when
> the strike started 
> and used the "large amount" of work-in-process
> inventory to "help meet 
> much of the demand on the first half of 2006."
> 
> By July, when the replacement workers were starting
> to be hired, the 
> company introduced what it calls the "corrected
> methods."
> 
> In the release, the company acknowledged it has not
> been able to 
> fulfill dealer orders but, it contended, this is not
> the first time 
> demand has outstripped supply for Bach Stradivarius
> instruments and 
> that dealers are receiving shipments daily.
> 
> "We're very, very proud of the product quality,"
> Breske said.
> 
> Along with the new Bach horns, Conn-Selmer is using
> the NAMM show to 
> introduce its new Leblanc by Backun clarinets. In
> particular, the 
> instruments feature redesigned keywork to allow the
> musicians to do 
> more musically.
> 
> *********
> Contact Marilyn Odendahl at modendahl at etruth.com.
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