Hi
I have a very beatiful Hohner Bb wich i love the sound, and, aperently, my son love it too.
Also he doesn’t like the flute and prefer the percussion instruments, and use the hohner like rods of battery. Now i have a depression near the mouthpiece and don’t know how to remove it.
I’ve tried to insert a rod but it doesn’t work. This fact, the hohner is more sharp now.
Perehaps someone knows about remedy to that.
… it’s time to work, bye
Ah, drumsticks. I see the problem. But I think you need to tell us more than that the dent is “near the mouthpiece”.
If it’s hard for you to explain exactly where the damage is in English, can you show us a picture? Or explain in your own language?
Steve
ho, you’ve seen that i’m not a native english man 
i thank you for your answer, how can i forget drumstick… so in French
Le whistle est enfoncé à à peu près 5cm de l’embouchure sur une étendue de 4 ou 5cm, et une profondeur de 3mm, ce qui est suffisant pour influer sur l’accordage de l’instrument et sur son look bien évidemment. Ceci dit ce n’est pas vraiment dramatique, ce whistle est accordé trop haut de toutes façons. Pour les photos, j’ai bien essayé mais ça ne rend pas trés bien en raison de la brillance du whistle.
Q. Par “embouchure” tu veux dire ce qu’on appelle en anglais la “fenêtre”, ou bien le bout du bec où on le met entre les lèvres?
Quick and dirty translation:
"There is a dent in the whistle about 5cm from the embouchure, about 4-5cm long, 3mm deep, enough to affect instrument’s tuning and of course its appearance. Having said that, this is not a huge problem because the whistle is tuned too sharp in any case. Photos: I tried but it doesn’t show very clearly because of the shine of the whistle. "
Anybody got any advice for Lichatt? I can’t tell what he means by “embouchure”, hence my question above. I guess he means the “window”.
lichatt—Being an ill-educated American, I understood your English much better than your French! Rods of battery—once I knew your son liked percussion instruments it made perfect sense.
This is an insane suggestion—but would people who get dents out of cars be able to fix your whistle. Where I live we would call them auto body shops. Probably a whistle is too tight a space for them to work in. You know, I think there must be people who fix musical instruments. This cannot be the only metal instrument that this has happened to. Many a flute must have been damaged, although perhaps not by this means.
Good luck and get that boy some real drumsticks, big ones! And hide your whistles.
On the other hand, if it has not made the whistle worse than it was, maybe no action is required?
If the dent is in a part of the whistle where the tube is not altered in shape, you can get it out with a rod of the correct diameter.
You will need a rod that is just small enough to push inside the tube with no looseness. The end of the rod will need to be rounded so it will push out dents as it goes in, without having a sharp edge that will snag the inside of the tube. You’ll need to lubricate the end of the rod. Candle wax rubbed on would probably work.
If the dent is in a place where the cylinder has been altered to accomodate the window/embouchure, soundblade and beak, this approach won’t work. I would have to see the whistle to be able to suggest how to proceed in that case.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Okay, you are in good hands now.
Wow, i didn’t think to have so many answer, many thanks to all of you.
SteveJ : your translation is very fine, it suggest me to learn more about English language Effectively i talk about the window, it’s an error due to the fact i use to talk about flute more than the whistle.
Cynth : Yes the auto body shops welds on the surface and draw (i think) but it’s a problem whith chrome, i made that one time on a thin walled coper tube, and use sandpaper after.
Jerry : i’d think about this but not to lubricate, i 'd imagine to heat the tube for put off the rod, your solution is best and easiest. There, the difference between amateur like me, an the recognized pro you are.
I post the pic , even it’s very very bad
Ho i can’t forget this. Here the ultimate whistle destructor
but i excuse him because he’s so nice.
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The ‘Joys of Parenthood’ eh?
Sorry to hear about your Hohner Bb (I love mine too!)-but we all do these random acts of destruction when we are ‘little rascals’ 
Good to see that you have started the little fellah off whistling at the right age!
yes, the destructor has already broken a fabulous bansuri, a recorder, a folk guitar, a beautiful bass, a double bass bow … hum i continue?
so i need to work hard to let him break new instruments
Destroyed a DOUBLE BASS?? !!! 
A Hohner Bb is the least of your worries!!
ho no just the bow …
So…
This little fellow of yours- does he actually LIKE music???
yes, like to hear music and he’s very curious about all instruments, and he plays djembe since he’s 1,5 for the misfortune oh his mom
I’d buy him a Tuba !!! 
He is a doll!
ho why not, finally i choose the bicycle
Okay, here’s something I’m uniquely qualified to answer, as I am both an instrument maker/restorer AND a certified Paintless Dent Repair Technician (No, really, I’m not kidding!)
A.) The guys who take the dents out of cars will only destroy your instrument, the method used for removing dents from cars requires a leverage point which a woodwind doesn’t provide. Trying to fix the dent with standar PDR (paintless dent repair) techniques typically ends in disaster. (Although I’ve never given it a try myself, I’ve talked to techs who have, and failed.)
B.) Virtually any good brass repair (trumpet, trombone, sax, etc.) shop will have special tools for removing dents - typically very strong magnets and various sizes of metal balls that are used in conjunction…well, never mind, the point is, a good brasswind repair shop of the type the fixes most children’s dented rental school instruments, should be able to remove the dent quickly and cheaply.
While I appreciate Jerry’s Do It Yourself moxie, experience tells me this isn’t one to tackle yourself.
Okay now, I’m guessing you may need to translate my ramblings Steve…
Loren