Posted by Paul Gramann on February 03, 2003 at 14:54:14:
In Reply to: Re: Bell annealing posted by Dan Schultz on February 03, 2003 at 13:40:51:
"brass tends to get harder (called work hardening) just from general use"
Interesting. Could this partially account for the break-in phenomenon that we seem to be at a loss to explain? Is this a long term (multi-decade) type of change? Does it depend on abuse (i.e resting the horn on its bell a lot) or just use (its own weight lying in the case)?
--paul;