How do you like your brass

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How do you like your brass?

Nice, shiny and bright, looking brand new
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Tarnished and distinguished, as if made by Taylor bros
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How do you like your brass

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On the various bits of brass (chanter top, keys, drones/regs, etc), do you prefer them to be shiny and new-looking or tarnished and old-looking?
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Tarnished
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Post by ausdag »

Tarnished. But it depends on the mounts too. If the mounts look too plastic-y, then shiny is better. If they look more like real bone or ivory, then tarnished gives it that antique look. But antique-looking brass with plastic-looking mounts doesn't seem right, so if your mountsd are shiny, then the brass should be shiny- just my aesthetic opinion.

BTW, apparently nickel-silver is a type of brass, in that case, I like it shiny.

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Post by Ailin »

I like mine just fine tarnished. I'd like them to be nice and shiny all
the time, but who has time to keep them polished. I'd rather be
playing than polishing! :D

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I like mine with a nice bordeaux, and truffles.... and very tarnished. :D
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Post by Thies »

Shiny looks nice, but is a lot of work. After each day/session one can polish the stuff and do it over and over again. So either you spend hours for polishing instead of piping or you just let nature rule! :wink:
It's against any physical law anyway that brass should be shiny ... :P
P.S.: It's a shame that noone has yet tried to use electrostatic varnishing (or whatever they use for other brass instruments) on pipe's brass parts. That would keep the stuff shiny ...
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With "Coppers and....
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Uilliam wrote:With "Coppers and....
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Polished.

I guess I am the only one...
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Post by rgouette »

Well, it may be the time in the Navy, but I tend to keep em' shiny using the same stuff I used in the Navy: "NeverDull".

Great stuff, & it doesn't take a lot of work either..

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Fried over easy....no...on second thought, on the rocks, yeah thats it.
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Post by liestman »

My first choice is to have my brass be chrome plated!

Second choice is shiny, definitely using Never Dull as suggested above.
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Post by Tony »

Shiny...
it shows your pride for an expensive well kept set of pipes, unlike dull patina and tarnished like a 1950's 'bluesman' with a beat-up old guitar...
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I don't get it. Didn't the Taylor Bros. work only in nickel silver?

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I don't get it. Didn't the Taylor Bros. work only in nickel silver?

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