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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
Even though a few brass instruments are used in an orchestra, concert bands are primarily made up of brass… More
Brass instruments are wind instruments that are often made of both brass and nickel. Although most brass i… More
Take your brass musical instrument apart for cleaning, carefully removing valve pieces; learn how from our… More
To clean a brass instrument, you'll need a mouthpiece brush, a "snake," a soft cloth, valve oil and polish… More
Parts of valve brass musical instruments, such as the trumpet and trombone, that must be cleaned include t… More
Flush brass musical instruments, such as trumpets, trombones, and tubas, using antibacterial dish liquid; … More
Remove valves when cleaning brass instruments like the tuba, trumpet and French horn; learn how from our e… More
Grease the slides on brass musical instruments, such as trumpets, trombones and tubas; learn how from our … More
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Summary: To clean a brass instrument, you'll need a mouthpiece brush, a "snake," a soft cloth, valve oil and polishing grease; learn more from our expert horn player in this free instrument-cleaning 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
" Hello! My name is Dwayne Carter and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am here to talk about cleaning brass instruments and the things you will need in the cleaning process. First of all, you will need a couple to towels, one to lay out your instrument after it has been cleaned and one to place inside the place where you are going to do the cleaning at to protect the instrument. You will need brushes, this is a mouthpiece brush and this is what we call a snake, which opens out into quite a long brush and it is for cleaning the length of the horn. You will need a soft cloth for cleaning and drying the instrument and you will need polishing clothes. The instrument needs to be oiled so we have valve oil and of course you can go to the instrument store and buy expensive grease for greasing your valves or you can go and buy some Vaseline, which is pretty much the same thing, it is an oil based grease. So with these tools you will be able to get your horn functioning properly, cleaning it, laying it out and then having it shined up."
eHow Article: Supplies for Cleaning Brass Instruments
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