Video: How to Clean & Maintain Trumpet Valves

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Learn how to clean the valves on your trumpet in this free video on playing the trumpet.

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chemasalazar Jul 31, 2009
This is great I cleaned the valves with the rod first, then i oiled and it worked great! Now i make sweet music!
trumpetman Mar 22, 2009
remeber kids, always wrap up your cleaning rod before puting it in the well lubed valve.
trumpetman Mar 22, 2009
remeber kids, always wrap up your cleaning rod before puting it in the well lubed valve.
trumpetman Mar 22, 2009
I like to oil my valve well. I also oil my cleaning rod, well acually my pipe cleaner.
trumpetman Mar 22, 2009
I like to oil my valve well. I also oil my cleaning rod, well acually my pipe cleaner.

Video Transcript

Valve care. It’s real important to keep your valves well oiled and maintained. Again you could also use some warm soapy water, not hot; you don’t want to take the finish off. This is an older trumpet and some of the finish is gone, but a little warm soapy water, dip them on in. you want to use a cleaning rod which you can attach any cloth to and what you’ll be able to do is wrap this up and you might want to swab the inside of the valve out, getting any of the dirt out of there. Take that off and then you want to, after you’ve cleaned the inside of the valve, you’ll want to wipe off the valve itself and apply a little bit of oil and keep everything well lubricated. A little bit of oil on the sides there and right on in the valve. Click it into place, blow a little air into it and everything will be nice and clean. So that’s valve number one and you’ll want to go through and you’ll want to clean each valve individually with the same method. Taking the valve out, cleaning the inside of the valve, click casing and wiping the outside of the valve off and reapplying some oil.

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How to Clean & Maintain Trumpet Valves

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