My awesome trumpet gadget

I recently disassembled my trumpet for washing, cleaning and polishing the silver and thought it might be interesting to share the process and results.

Also over a year ago I built a little simple, yet practical gadget for my trumpet which have done its job all the time, and will continue to do so.

Here comes the trumpet demonstrating the little gadget in a new shiny, fresh condition:

There is a leather strap...

Ok so a trumpet has those so called triggers on the first and third valve. With those you can sligtly change the pitch more easly on a specific tone while you're playing, to tune in better.

And they are usually well greased. And they are defenetly not meant to be used if the valve/button is not activated, thus creating a slight vacuum.

But as I'm not playing and if the case/gigbag stands up -then this can happen over a couple of hours or so. It pulls down by gravity.

Besides it was irritating to see it every time I opened the case and knowing it's not good for the instrument, the main issue is the the greased that is applied "dries" or "disappears" more quickly as the trigger is constantly open. So its like a vicious circle.

Congrats you made it to this point, hope I've learned you something about trumpets hehe:)

Now comes just pictures of the cleaning process if you're interested. Including before and after pics.

After some hours of reassembly with oiling, greasing, drying and silver oxide polishing I came to this:

Some before and after of the same area of the horn. Look closely.

Now it has a much deeper mirror like silver glance

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