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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: Parts of valve brass musical instruments, such as the trumpet and trombone, that must be cleaned include the bell and the mouthpiece; learn how 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
" My name is Dwayne Carter and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am talking today about cleaning brass instruments. We are looking specifically at valve brass instruments here. I have brought along a trumpet, a fluegelhorn and a valve trombone. If you notice all three have valves and slides. Slide here is the tuning slide and then each valve has a slide. Here is the first valve slide, the second valve slide and on this side we have the third valve slide. The valves are 1, 2 and 3 and then you have on this side the pipe leading to the bell and here we have the lead pipe and of course there is a mouthpiece that goes along with the instrument. The components are the same for each of the instruments. Here in the fluegelhorn you will see again the valves, the bell, the lead pipe, the slides and then in this case the tuning slide is here in the front, but all the components are basically the same. So for our cleaning purposes, we need to clean each one of those items. So that is it for the components of the horn."
eHow Article: Parts of Brass Instruments that Must be Cleaned
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