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Re: Cleaning silver instruments

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cleaning silver instruments
From: "Solo Cornet" <solo.cornet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:12:33 -0000
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>Try putting the instrument (minus all the sensitive parts) in warm/hot
water
>and add aluminium foil (just standard foil used for cooking) and baking
>soda.  Its amazing how the tarnish just lifts off (you get a good whiff of
>sulphur).

I tried this once. It cleaned the silver fine, but the bare brass parts (and
presumably all the inside) turned black with a thick layer of oxide stuff.
You are warned!

Andy Callard


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