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Your brass was not scraped off and the spots are indeed a result of dezincification.

Instruments are made from solid brass, this is required as a stiffer metal like brass is required to have good sound quality. How do I identify dezincifiaction correctly? Can it be seen on those pictures? (most important question)

What do you think of cleaning such an instrument soap? Is this going to damage the lacquer or material?īrass Instrument: Dezincification or just scrubbed off?.

What do you think of chemical cleaning? It sounds dangerous to me.

How do I identify dezincifiaction correctly? Can it be seen on those pictures? (most important question).

It might also just be lacquer which went off due to improper handling (like not cleaning water spots, showering/cleaning the trombone with way too hot water, etc.). So it is kind of unlikely but not unheard of that this might be "red rot" or dezincified. The issue is: On trombones (other brass instruments) red rot (dezincification) usually only appears on parts where saliva touches the instrument, i.e. Now they told me to ask here how to identify real dezincificated parts.

Now I learned that the brass contains zinc, and there is a corrosion process called "dezincification". I do own a brass instrument (a trombone).