| With regards to the initial post I'm not an expert on Eclipse bells, since I have only played one. However, that one is a medium red with silver finish. I have two other horns, a relatively new French Besson Classic, which has a yellow brass bell and silver finish, and a vintage Olds Recording with rose brass bell. For all practical purposes it's in raw brass now, because the original lacquer is about gone.
The med red Eclipse in silver gets a broader, bigger, darker, smoother sound than either the Besson or the Olds when played with the same mouthpiece. Actually, the Eclipse is darker than the Besson with any combination of mouthpieces. If I play the Besson with a GR 66***, and the Eclipse with a Schilke 14A4a, the sounds are close, but the edge still goes to the Eclipse as being the darker of the two. And it's hard to sound dark with a Schilke 14A4a, at least for me.
I don't think you need be afraid of the silver finish on the red brass bells at all.
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