We recommend that your trumpet be ultrasonic cleaned using a chemical bath especially formulated to remove corrosion, mineral scale, and other foreign matter from the inside of a trumpet or cornet.
Crone Trumpet Repair & Sales is now offering this service (which we have been providing to our local customers for 10 years) to our Internet Customers.

We are members of NAPBIRT – the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians, and we get involved with other members to share best practices and techniques through discussions, seminars, and training. Excellent playing quality is always paramount at Crone Trumpet.

Chemical cleaning is important because contaminants building-up inside an instrument year-after-year will result in a chemical leaching of zinc from the copper/zinc alloy. This de-zincification (better known as red rot) will ultimately result in tubing splits and pinholes, especially in a trumpet mouthpipe. Our cleaning process begins with disassembly of the trumpet removing the valve pistons, and slides and the removal of built-up oil and grease. An ultrasonic chemical bath then removes the corrosion, mineral scale and other foreign matter from the inside of the horn. No metal is removed in this process. During the chemical cleaning, we take steps to avoid damaging lacquered finishes. After the cleaning, the valve pistons and valve casings are hand polished and reassembled and correctly aligned and crisp fast valve action is restored replacing springs, felts and pads as necessary. Slide tubing is hand polished and greased, Waterkey levers and springs are oiled and new corks are installed. After the trumpet has been correctly reassembled, the instrument is thoroughly checked and play tested by our NAPBIRT trained technician and owner of trumpet4U.

This $75 trumpet cleaning and tune up service includes:

• Trumpet is disassembled and ultrasonic cleaned in a chemical solution formulated to clean the inside of a trumpet, followed by a thorough brushing.
• Valve pistons and valve casings are hand polished, valves are correctly aligned. Crisp fast valve action is restored. Springs, felts and pads are replaced as necessary.
• Easily accessible dents are removed.
• Trumpet is lubricated and correctly reassembled – tuning and valve slides fit and aligned as necessary.
• Waterkey operation is checked and springs and corks are replaced when necessary.
• Trumpet is play tested and inspected by our experienced trumpet player and NAPBIRT trained repair technician.

The above Play Condition Service does not include:

• Removal of extreme and/or very large dents
• Crinkled bells
• Resoldering braces, pinky hook, or tuning slides
• Totally frozen tuning slides that require oil-soaking and heating or unsoldering

Shipping Instructions:
We recommend that you ship the trumpet in its case placed in a shipping box with your return address and email address and ship it by UPS Ground Service and ship it to:
Crone Trumpet
Ralph Crone
37 Jamestown Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45241-1435

Turn around time is normally 2 to 3 days in our shop plus the time required to return the trumpet to you by UPS Ground Service.

Polishing of silver trumpets or relacquering of lacquered trumpets.

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