How to Clean a Flute Without Taking It Apart

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you how to clean your flute without disassembling it. I really don't recommend that you try to disassemble a flute, it's pretty much like putting a jigsaw puzzle back together, you can really have a hard time with it if you don't know what you're doing. But there are ways to do it without having to disassemble it. First of all we could take our little brush here, and you can get those anywhere, we will get out any of the excess dust that is in between the keying mechanisms, get that all out. If it's extra grimed up, you can take some Q-tips here and we'll take our glass cleaner, just spray a little bit on there and just get in between these areas here with the Q-tips. Now the most of all that's important to be cleaned out is your bore. Make sure that you go ahead and spray your swab down with some Windex and run that through there, that will help clean your bore, and keep it nice and the air flowing nice through there. And those are how to clean your flute without disassembling."