Posted by c(g) Pd on August 25, 2003 at 13:31:09:
In Reply to: Re: Tuba metallurgics, carbon sousas posted by Rick Denney on August 25, 2003 at 13:13:20:
One or two flute makers market flutes of pure palladium and a few of palladium-copper alloys. I've wondered if the palladium thing was a result of the "cold fusion" craze of the early 80's and the sudden increase in demand for what had been a rather obscure metal.
At any rate, if there's an interesting material that seems to offer superior acoustic properties to the plain old brasses, I suspect we'll see it in the higher brasses before we see it in tubas mostly because the smaller tooling costs less and the market's larger.