Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2006/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Is it or ain't it?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:30:58 -0400


If the silver content is high, then the plating will look much whiter than
nickel. In very thin films, silver oxide, silver sulphide and the finely-divided
metal all look brownish.
Roger
S.

In message <001e01c6862d$7336a850$6501a8c0@-----.org writes:
>
> ----- 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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