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"Post-1970's models of tubas which are rarely offered in lacquered brass (and are nearly always offered with silver plated finishes) usually don't feature any nickel silver parts."

eh...??

Why pay double the price to build in something nice if it can't be seen under all that fake plating?

Aren't the Bach trumpets like this, too? Is there nickel silver beneath the plating? I seem to recall a very worn Strad trumpet with bare brass spots on slide tubes and ferrules.

I can think of one company that used to brag that the nickel silver bits on their unplated horns were likewise nickel silver on the plated ones. This same company used to brag that the secret to their "sound" was in the alloy of the metal they used to form the branches and bows. And that they also made every part themselves, including springs and screws. Today this is not the case with that company.

Everybody be makin' them Benjamins…

I will say this about brass inside AND outside tubes:
It sure it takes less time to lap them into each other, where fast slides are needed.

- I don’t ever red-rot instruments.
- Even though yellow brass is not as durable as nickel brass, it’s certainly going to outlast me. After that time period is over, I don’t believe I will be caring much about whether an instrument lasts for someone else.

No nickel silver on Kanstul G bugles for Drum Corps.

York-aholic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 7:23 pm No nickel silver on Kanstul G bugles for Drum Corps.

good to know