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Re: New R13 plating flaking

Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2007-07-03 14:06

I just bought a new silver-plated R-13 from Walter Grabner and it is a wonderful, wonderful instrument. He and I discussed the poor quality of the nickle-plated version and I told him I would never buy another one because of the very problem mentioned above. I bought a nickle-plated R-13 a couple of years ago and only kept it 10 months and sold it because the plating had begun to show wear. I don't have highly acidic skin and didn't play it every day because I have other instruments, but it was my concert instrument. So, this time I bit the bullet and got the silver-plated one. It's absolutely gorgeous and Walter did a great job on setting it up.

Walter told me that Buffet had to stop using the good kind of nickle plating because it gave off some kind of dangerous fumes to the workers, so they had to modify the process and the nickle-plating isn't as good as it used to be a few years back. But, maybe he's around the board today and he'll comment on this.

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