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Originally Posted by brem  Do Chinese trumpets cause lead poisoning? just kidding folks. |
The question is fair as in the old days, the way to bend tubing was to fill it with lead, bend and then melt it back out.
I have a chinese pocket trumpet that has no trace of lead in any of the bends (web cam pushed down into the bore to see). That means that they are using pitch or frozen soapy water. None of the student horns that I have seen have any sign of lead other than the solder joints.
We need to be careful that the posting here does not become troll-like. The local companies importing these horns know EXACTLY what they are doing. I am not an advocate of outsourcing production to Asia, but there are enough people that only accept the cheapest!