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I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I promised my wife I would ask those that are smarter than me. The slide on her trombone has some plating wear on the inner slides; is it possible to ave the inner slide replated, and who would you recommend to do such a thing? Her trombone is a basic student model Yamaha so it is nothing special. I would rather just get her a new horn, but she has that "emotional attachment" to her horn and is fighting me on this. In the meantime she will have to use my trombone when she joins the band I'm directing. I'm hoping that using a horn with a good slide will help to changer he thinking, but we will see how that goes.

The slide doctor is the only place that touches my slides. John has retired but Ray is 99% as good. The last time I was up there(I'm lucky that they are only an hour from my house) he had repaired slides packaged up to be shipped out all over the world, one for Ben van Dijk. Email them and they will send you a box with instructions as to how to prepare the slide for shipment. The normal job is about $100 but I have no idea about the replating. I cannot say enough good things about this place. They are the best but slides is all they will do. By the way the wear is probably from misalignment. I get mine realigned every year so it won't happen. My Olds O-25 came to me with stocking wear and I took it to John. He realigned it without replating and it is as good as new as long as you don't look at it.

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bloke wrote:
There is a better and much simpler solution."

I wholeheartedly agree with you, but I told her I would ask. I asked, you answered, now to find her a new horn.

My trombone has a touch of plating loss on the inners, and it plays OK. I suppose hers may be worse, but maybe buffing might make it manageable? as a backup, anyway.

Donn wrote:My trombone has a touch of plating loss on the inners, and it plays OK. I suppose hers may be worse, but maybe buffing might make it manageable? as a backup, anyway.

No no no, I'm trying to convince her to get a new horn. You are absolutely no help here Donn

In reality though, the plating wear is pretty bad, plus it needs an alignment, which is an extra cost I could put towards a new horn.

bloke wrote:Would you be offended were I to offer you some options of "decent beginner grade" (along the lines of Yamaha...possibly even Yamaha) used trombones (shiny) along with pricing?

If interested, send me an email.

If you've noticed, tubas that I have for sale sell pretty fast (for a reason)...' same with trombones...and trumpets...and horns...and euphoniums...and clarinets...and flutes...and saxophones...etc...

...and - if you want something nicer (that still won't break the bank), I have a selection of those as well.

email address is in signature.

Much appreciated. When I finally convince the wife I will definitely be in touch.

To help convince her, take her to Schmidt's in Brooklyn Center. The Davenport repair shop is right there so you can get an estimate. If you go in further, they have a very nice brass shop just full of trombones. The manager is a trombone player. He seemed very nice and helpful. I suspect the cost picture will get her thinking and a shiny new horn will turn her head.

Joe, I have no doubt that there are some poor slide boxes out there but the ones I have seen look like a refined version of the one you describe.

So the update, I finally had a chance to pull her trombone out; fortunately the plating wear is not as bad as I thought it was so that buys us a little more time. I gave the horn a bath and re-lubed everything and it seems to work pretty well. I will get it in for a slide alignment sometime in the near future, but for now, she's happy and if it starts giving her issues then she can just use my horn while we save the nickels and dimes for a new one (or repairs.

Thank you to all of you for the advice and humor.

Joe, As usual you are quite a bit more reasonable than the competition.