Hello another update on the horns, both Pierce and I gave them all a vinegar bath to remove the tarnish. Every horn looks majorly different after that and much better. The pool horn and the Augu had pretty amazing transformations. A fair warning don't do this on your personal horn we only did it here because these horns were very tarnished.
We also both had a fun venture into soldering, we're not very good yet. Pierce had an old herald trumpet which he used to practice a little bit, I just used an old table leg this really helped us figure out how to take things apart. A quick update and some pictures for each of the horns.
Pool horn:
I removed the bell and have been attempting to remove the rest of the slides they unfortunately need more time and oil. The process is to apply oil and heat using the propane torch to coerce the oil into the tubes. Unfortunately these slides are very stuck so this process takes quite a bit of time it could take up to another week before these slides free up.
Saxonor:
The saxonor is being a pain in the butt, nothing wants to move which is similar to the pool horn . The end cap on the second valve came off... don't know what to do about that. Also as I was removing excess solder around the tuning slide I discovered a massive hole, it looks like someone tried to reconstruct the slide using solder. It will need to be replaced. On the plus side it looks quite a bit cleaner but the transformation from the vinegar bath isn't very big. Also a positive is that I managed to straighten the third valve slide which was quite bent.
Sudre:
We discovered a little bit of historical context for this horn, the horn was likely made by Francois Sudre (1844-1912). Sudre bought out a company named Halary between 1873-1875 which was known for instrument making in France. Sudre is most known for patenting the Sudrophone although not a very popular instrument anyway. So from this information we can deduce that the Horn was likely made between 1873 and 1912 making this horn well over 100 years old. There is also a stamp with a location on it which was Sudre's shop, 17ave Trudaine Paris. If you're interested you can see the shop where it was made on google street view which is really cool, the building is now occupied by a real estate agency and a yoga studio. Pierce mostly just cleaned this horn but he also managed to get the slides free and all the valves.
Augu:
The Augu underwent an amazing transformation, we both thought the horn was raw brass. But after the vinegar bath all the tarnish came off and we discovered it is silver plated! Pierce removed the lead pipe and corrected the bend by the crack. He removed all of the braces that would have been attached to the lead pipe as well as the finger ring.
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