Hi everyone !
Some months ago, I bought a new flute for my collection, a beautiful 5 keyed Lehart’s in D.
It sounds amazing, just one thing that I’m worried about, the Copper rings are starting to get different colours, blue, green, yellow, they look like a Rainbow haha ..
I wonder if they get their orange colour back.
Cya!
Diego.
Copper does that over time. Copper eaves on homes here, as well as the Statue of Liberty, turn a greenish-blue. You can clean it to get it back to it’s original color, but you’ll have to continue doing it. Enjoy!
Hi Diego. I have a Lehart flute and the copper rings on it are tarnished, just like what you described. The only spot that is still shiny and bright is where I hold onto it when I’m not playing, the ring between the headjoint and the next section. I had an older Lehart before this one and it looked sort of like an antique because the rings were a very dull orangeish-brown. People always asked how old it was. I loved the look of that flute! So no worries, it’s normal for the rings to do that and the rainbow look may go away over time. As Sean mentioned above, you can always polish up the rings if you like but you’ll have to keep doing that every so often. Gilles Lehart is a very nice person and a great flute maker to work with, you can email him and ask him about it if you like.
Thanks dude.. but it will get like orange when time passes? or it will get shiny rainbow colours even more? hehe ..
There was nothing rainbow about the older one I had, all the rings were the orangish-brown color. So I assume over time they will all turn one color. I’ve only had my new one for a year now and it’s got the rainbow thing going on still so I can’t speak from experience with a new flute.
Hahahaha 
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That’s a new term we created.. " The Rainbow Rings Lehart’s Syndrome " ..
Have you ever seen an American penny?
I purchased an older Lehart flute earlier this year. The copper rings were all a dull but uniform orangy-mocha brown. In retrospect, this color was quite lovely. Great flute, by the way.
However, I somehow decided that the thing to do was to polish the rings so they would look new–which they did…for about a week. Now I have the “rainbow” effect, and I just can’t wait for that uniform patina to return. My advice is to let the rings tarnish. Do not polish.
That’s a great advice Richard, thank you.
I agree with Richard. Let the Rainbow Ring Syndrome run its course.
She’s not a dude, she’s a dudee 
I believe I have that flute now 
. It doesn’t have the rainbow thing yet. It’s just tarnished and I don’t mind.