Mystery Metal Tuning Slide
- BigBadandBass
- Posts: 270
- Joined: Feb 13, 2020
Hi all,
I got this shires tuning slide in a sale and for the life of me cannot figure out the metal. The buyer also called it “mystery metal”, which is why I am asking the choir here. It’s redder than the yellow brass I have on my trombone and the remaining lacquer to me makes me think it look like it is red or German brass, but last I checked shires doesn’t make tuning slides in that metal. What are ya’lls thoughts?
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I got this shires tuning slide in a sale and for the life of me cannot figure out the metal. The buyer also called it “mystery metal”, which is why I am asking the choir here. It’s redder than the yellow brass I have on my trombone and the remaining lacquer to me makes me think it look like it is red or German brass, but last I checked shires doesn’t make tuning slides in that metal. What are ya’lls thoughts?
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Edit: should now be viewable
- harrisonreed
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I thought shires marked their tuning slides
- Arvopart17
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- Joined: Jul 02, 2020
No idea if this helps, but it looks like gold brass to me. Here’s my horn, the bell is Red Brass, main tuning is gold and the f-attachment tuning is yellow.
Sorry the lighting sucks.
Sorry the lighting sucks.
- TheBoneRanger
- Posts: 225
- Joined: Apr 04, 2018
Looks like any gold brass Shires tuning slide I've ever seen.
Andrew
Andrew
- Burgerbob
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Looks yellow to me, could be my monitors though. I'd assume a BG would be marked BG.
- Arvopart17
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- Joined: Jul 02, 2020
You would think so! But mine’s definitely gold and it is just marked “X” not “XG”.
- GabrielRice
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- Joined: Mar 23, 2018
Looks like a standard gold brass tuning slide to me. The actual color you see under lacquer is not only a function of the alloy but on how it was buffed, the age of the lacquer, what environment it has been in, etc., so there can be small variations.
- GabrielRice
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- Joined: Mar 23, 2018
Looks like a standard gold brass tuning slide to me. The actual color you see under lacquer is not only a function of the alloy but on how it was buffed, the age of the lacquer, what environment it has been in, etc., so there can be small variations.