The humidity in my house (I live in a 'mobile home', hate using that term though because it is definitely not on wheels or going anywhere any time soon) this summer is killing not just me, but also my silver instruments. Everything is tarnishing this summer without even trying. It appears to only affect polished silver -- my baritone horn and my flute. My matte-silver Besson seems unaffected.
I have no idea how to help. I have silver polish but it seems like every time I take them out of their cases, there's another new significant spot of tarnish happening requiring more polishing. It's a never-ending battle. Particularly it is worse for my flute that is far more difficult to de-tarnish than my horn due to crevices.
Aside from the non-stop polish war, is there anything preventative I can do to help these instruments not-tarnish?
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notes:
I live in Canada so no need to have built in central a/c, we do run a portable a/c in the livingroom in the summer when we're home but I don't run it while I'm out which most hours of a workday. The unit does pull moisture from the air as well but only for the immediate area and only while it's running. I have a small dehumidifier unit in our master bedroom which does very little I find, and when the bucket fills up, it shuts itself off which is only useful when we're home to empty it. By far the place of less humidity is the living area where I'm running the portable a/c which is where I'm keeping the instruments right now, but it's not been enough so far.
We do run the furnace's air circulation system which is supposed to keep the humidity down, but it also can't seem to compete.