Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 2006/06

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Is it or ain't it?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:17:28 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce M" <bmcgar@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: [kl] Is it or ain't it?

> Fok,
>
> I have a metal clarinet that I had refurbished (A Cleveland/H.N.
> White/King horn with the double-wall bell).
>
> I assumed that the instrument was not silver plated, yet it seems to be
> tarnishing "brown," as silver items do. I haven't been able to find the
> definitive word on the plating on this horn in my research in the archives
> or elsewhere.
>
> Is silver, or a silver alloy, the only common instrument plating material
> that tarnishes in this way?
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.
>

Silver tends to tarnish a black or dark grayish color. Nickel tends to
tarnish brown. Silver tarnishes quite rapidly. Nickel tarnishes slowly.

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