White Gloves for playing?

[Tubahokk]

Reading on the tuba/euphonium FB page I learned that some tubas are sold with white gloves.

One of the brass pros (trumpet) in our community band plays with a white glove on his right hand only.

I assume they are some kind of acid protection.

Does anybody have an idea as to how efficacious they are in protecting the finish on a horn?

Are they really necessary?

[bort]

Right hand? How much contact does your right hand really make anyway?

I'm sure it works, but it's a little ridiculous and obsessive to me. To each his own, but I think it's unnecessary.

If you're really concerned about it, just wipe it down when you're finished.

[Donn]

As long as it goes with the rest of the uniform.

[Three Valves]

I think it's an Asian thing.

In Japan, everyone wears them!!

[bort]

Are you implying the Michael Jackson was Asian?

[Three Valves]

Are you implying the Michael Jackson was Asian?

Half Asian, obviously!!

[Dan Schultz]

Hagerty makes a pair of terry-cloth gloves and offers a polishing spray to put on them. The system works great for getting into all the 'nooks and crannies' on a silver horn. Polish while you play!

[PMeuph]

Does anybody have an idea as to how efficacious they are in protecting the finish on a horn?

Not more effective than the black ones...

Are the really necessary?

Nope.

I have acidic sweat... (Coffee, Citrus, Beer, etc,....IDK) Raw brass trombones(euphoniums, tubas, etc) leave green marks on my shirt collars, neck and hands. To remedy the problem, I cover the raw brass with clear nail polish.

Clean the horn off first, then apply clear nail polish. (It's cheap (stolen from my better half) and readily available)

[Donn]

The MSDS appears to back DP up, if you take his pictorial response to mean that Hagerty's Silversmith's Polish spray has perchloroethylene, AKA tetrachloroethylene, perc. If you want your tuba shiny bad enough to put your hand in a glove soaked in perc, go ahead, but for regular playing purposes it doesn't seem like a very wholesome option. I don't think Dan was really serious there, but maybe worth mentioning anyway.

[Dan Schultz]

The MSDS appears to back DP up, if you take his pictorial response to mean that Hagerty's Silversmith's Polish spray has perchloroethylene, AKA tetrachloroethylene, perc. If you want your tuba shiny bad enough to put your hand in a glove soaked in perc, go ahead, but for regular playing purposes it doesn't seem like a very wholesome option. I don't think Dan was really serious there, but maybe worth mentioning anyway.

I've used the product. The spray that's used on the gloves very quickly dries to a fine powder. I doubt if there's much danger in the use of it.... (hack, hack, cough, rattle!)