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I bought an old alexandre horn on eBay a while back. It turned out to be a little bit of a lemon, but a great candidate for delaquering.

Since I was not concerned about killing the horn, This is how i did it.

Using Behr, the stripper, I sprayed on a healthy coat and went to my lesson. 1 hour later, bubbles galore and then a little rinse off. most of the laquer was gone. I did it one more time scrubbing very gently with 0000 steel wool and one hundred percent of the laquer was gone. I polished it using nevr dull( in a blue can from Canadian tire.)

This polish is in a wadding form and from past experience, removal of metal is extremely minimal. Removal of residue is almost instant.

Rest assured the steel wool scrub I inflicted upon the horn caused no damage what so ever, as it was very light and the laquer gummed it up pretty quickly anyway. There is no visible damage to slides and the corks even survived the delaquering onslaught.


Now I can let the horn tarnish and become aged again, This trumpet is stamped 1934. It sounds decent enough but has compression issues. It did brighten up the sound considerably as the old laquer was about 90 percent intact.

So this was very easy and results favourable, the most important outcome was the minimalist changes to the horn physically. I hope this will help somebody out because up to now i haven't really read an easy method of doing this. have fun