Posted by JoeS on March 10, 2003 at 20:55:58:
In Reply to: Thinking outside the box posted by hiram diaz on March 10, 2003 at 19:47:05:
Get ready to either get annoyed or watch others get annoyed:
As one who repairs brass instruments, my experience is that 99% of those who have the lacquer removed from their brass instruments do so after some accident that required that the instrument be unsoldered and disassembled in order to repair it.
0% of those who have the lacquer removed from their instruments do so in the first year of (purchased new) ownership.
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You may weigh those observations along with any possible validity that lacquer removal significantly changes the way an instrument responds according to its player's input.