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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?



Edit: should now be viewable

Looks more gold than red...

I thought shires marked their tuning slides

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.

Looks like any gold brass Shires tuning slide I've ever seen.

Andrew

Looks yellow to me, could be my monitors though. I'd assume a BG would be marked BG.

You would think so! But mine’s definitely gold and it is just marked “X” not “XG”.

Looks yellow to me as well.

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.

I was hoping “X” would map to the ever elusive unobtainium.