Replacing a Trumpet Water Key Spring

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you how to replace a water key spring. Usually water keys will break, just over time the metal gets brittle on them, or if you're hard on them and don't oil them properly, then they will wear out on you. But first of all, obviously this is broken, we're going to have to remove this pin here from there. And I've already chosen my new water key spring right here. Here's where that handy tool comes in. You're going to just place the end of the spring in there, and this is kind of a tricky little part, I'm going to place this water key, grab my pin, go ahead and slide and snap it on in there. And we have a brand new water key cork, grab my wire cutters here, I'm just going to go ahead and snip the long ends of this water key spring. And that is how you replace a water key spring."