10-23-2006, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by brian moon  #1) That guy's brother is either ignorant or didn't understand the question. Leave it outside for the month of February, or in a meat freezer, and see what it is like afterwards. It will be hard and brittle.
#2) Very carefully. When a bell is annealed sometimes the rim needs to be re-soldered afterwards. | He did understand the question and he is not ignorant. I know there people still freezing their trumpets but it does not change the properties of the brass. People still do it because other people will pay them to. I have left my Bach trumpet in the car for long periods and nothing happened. I keep my Bach cornet in the car full time, summer and winter. I use it to play on the road. Nothing has changed. It gets very cold in the winter and I put the heat vent on it to warm it up before I play it. Nothing ever happened. I have been doing this with the cornet for about ten years. It's not brittle and it plays just like it did when it was new. |
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