Stainless steel

[Steginkt]

Would it technically by possible to make a stainless steel tuba? How would this affect sound?

[Ltrain]

For the doublers out there: http://stashstainlessbass.com" target="_blank

[imperialbari]

If stainless steel is so hard to construct brass-type instruments from, how are the inner knucles/passage-tubing then mounted in stainless steel pistons as known from amongst other samples my British made (1999) Besson 981 Eb tuba?

Klaus

[MikeW]

According to this link, Schilke compared trumpets made from various materials. The two extremes were lead (soft - no overtones, so it produced pure sine waves) and steel (hard - lots of overtones, rang when you tapped it, but "dead' when you tried to play it).

http://www.dallasmusic.org/schilke/Brass%20Clinic.html