| I have also left many of my horns throughout the years in the trunk-both when hot and cold. Never had any cracks or bad solder joints. Never noticed a difference in sound once they were back to room temperature. I do not like playing horns when they are cold!
When I was in the Army, we still had to play when it was COLD outside. I had a Schilke mouthpiece with a delrin rim. The clarinets got off starting at 10 degrees celcius.
One issue with the heat, if your horn is not absolutely clean inside, hot days can turn what is stuck on the inside to that which crawls around. The biotope in the leadpipe I imagine could be harmful to your health................
Cryogenics is something I would like to see more honest information on. A brass instrument has due to the bends and flare a lot of residual tension that is part of the temper that colors the total sound of the instrument. Cryogenics would change those patterns for sure, maybe causing no audible difference, but then again maybe............... Independent RESEARCH is required here. Anybody have any real good links?
I had a horn ultrasonically cleaned once and am convinced that it sounded a lot worse afterwards. Any experiences here?
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