Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 1992/11

From: <NVFAYXJ@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Mottled Keys
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:11:36 -0500

*** Reply to note of 11/03/92 10:35

My buffet Bb, R-13 is #80003, bought from Hans Moennig in Philadelphia in 1964,
gets the same thing. These older buffet's don not have nickel plating, they are
solid nickel silver (sometimes known as german silver). Nickel silver has no s
ilver in it, it is just nickel and I believe, tin. I too, get this in areas my
fingers usually don't touch. I usually just scrape it off, or use fine (0000) g
rade steel wool, and mabye some Silvo (or Brasso). Nickel plating would look ve

   
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