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Why You Need to Clean Your Brass Instrument
Supplies for Cleaning Brass Instruments
How to Set Up a Workspace for Cleaning Brass Instruments
Parts of Brass Instruments that Must be Cleaned
How to Flush a Brass Instrument
Tips for Flushing a Brass Instrument
How to Take a Brass Instrument Apart for Cleaning
How to Clean the Body of a Brass Instrument
How to Clean Slides & Mouthpieces on Brass Instruments
How to Clean the Valves on Brass Instruments
How to Grease the Slides on Brass Instruments
How to Oil Valves on Brass Instruments
Cleaning Cloths for Brass Instruments
How to Polish Brass Instruments
Cleaning Inspection for Brass Instruments
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Summary: You need to clean brass instruments because items can get caught in the mouthpiece and bacteria can grow inside; learn more from our expert horn player in this free instrument-maintenance video.
Duane Carter is a musician, writer and librarian from Los Angeles, Calif. He studied trumpet at Locke High School with jazz greats Bobby Bryant, Sr. and Oscar Brashear. Carter has...read more
Caring for any musical instrument is important to the sound and function of that instrument. For brass instruments, this is especially true. Brass instruments are musical instruments that produce a sound by vibrating the lips and blowing air into the mouthpiece of the instrument. Valves and tubing change the pitch of the note initially played. Brass instruments include trumpets, tubas, trombone, cornet, bugle, and the French horn. Flutes, though made of brass, are not typically described as brass instruments because the sound is produced differently.
In this series of expert videos, you will learn more about care and maintenance for brass instruments. Before you begin playing the instrument, you should familiarize yourself with the parts of the instrument so that you will know what needs to be routinely cleaned. Some valves can become sticky; watch videos in this series on how to clean and replace valve pads. Also get tips on valve oils, greasing slides, cleaning cloths and polishes for brass instruments. Learn how to clean everything on the brass instrument from the mouthpiece to the slide.
" Hi! My name is Dwayne Carter and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am here to talk about cleaning brass instruments. First of all, we want to think about why we clean our instruments. When you consider that you are playing your horn all day long practicing, several days of a week, going out on gigs what are you putting into that horn. You have to think that there are two factors here. One is the food that you consume, what is in your mouth when you playing that gets blown through your horn. Of course you realize that your mouthpieces has a very small opening, so what actually is going through are very small particles, but those small particles can stick to the inside of your horn. The other thing to consider is the bacteria that grow inside your horn. Remember it is a dark moist place, where bacteria love to grow. So those are two factors that you must consider that requires the cleaning of your horn."
eHow Article: Why You Need to Clean Your Brass Instrument
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