Tips for Cleaning a Trombone

Video Transcript

"Now that sound comes, it could come hammering back at the lip but you got the two corks in there. They're to be watched out for but you can't, when you clean your horn you'll have in your horn case or from the music store a long wire that's flexible with brushes at the end. Take your horn apart and carefully put it in luke warm water in your bathtub. One time I played a gig and I was washing my horn I had finished the one section in the horn the bell part and put it in my case and I ran off to the gig. I left my slide in the bathtub I never forget that, luckily I was near by I drove back and got it. But there's all kinds of gunk to get out of here if you clean your horn out if you play it regularity at least once every month. Preferably more often and replace these slides that your music repair shop or if you can do it yourself on a regular bases. They will last for a few years but if you're getting no actual help on a slide banging or if you feel that the corks are loosening have them replaced. After you brush through the horn and dry it out carefully polish it then, that's pretty much all the maintenance and then you'll have a fresh clean healthy nice polished horn."