Re: Sanitizing a trumpet


"Su" <sparkle_su@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I've never heard of Simple Green -- is that just a detergent you can buy
from the supermarket?


Washing up liquid often comes in different forms now with one version being
antibacterial.

I use a little Milton Fluid which is a mild bleach - the sort of stuff used
for cleaning babies bottles. (About a cap full in a sink. Don't pour it on
the instrument. That can damage it - especially silver plate!)

A flexible brush cleaner is used to get round the bends. I have a small
bottle brush to do the straight tubing. If you get a lot of black gunk on
the brush, plain old soap can be good to shift this.
Keep brushing it out and soaping it until you stop getting dirt on the brush
then give it all a good rinse in clean warm water.

Leave it to dry and then grease the slides and oil the slides. If you
grease the slides while the instrument is warm it can melt the grease which
can collect in a corner and clog up the tubing. Or it can set making the
slides difficult to remove.

Steve M


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