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I’m a flute player, but I used to be apart of an honor society that did a brass instrument clean out every year. For elementary schools. We would work through eight different schools with about...ten to fifteen instruments each. We could start around 2:30 PM, and finish around 5-6 PM, depending on how many workers we had that year. (My first year there were only four of us, and our director.) I was meticulous about how I cleaned the ones that passed by me, but...the things we found in those instrument. I found a lego figure in a euphonium. Practically everything was black in them. My director was confused when he couldn’t get water out of the bell of a tuba. He reached in, and we all heard something crunch. He pulled out an entire sandwich in a ziplock bag. He just started at us with the most done expression while we all cracked up. Ahhh good times.
I'm a bassist and in no way does this video pertain to me, but watching your meticulous work and passion for your instrument is just delightful! Good job!
Martin Holde Yould you help me? I've put an giant ballon over my bass and tried to clean it then. Didn't worked. Edit: Wait a second, I use an digital Bass from FL Studios. Now my PC is full of liquid nooo
Every brass player needs to watch this!!! While I've been doing most of these, there where certain tricks I wasn't aware of that would be extremely useful. Thanks for making this!
I’m a clarinet player so I can’t relate to this but I got a close friend that plays the same instrument and she has struggles cleaning hers so I will definitely show her this!
Yay! Now you are able to count twenty rests and play a single note that precedes another twenty rests (and so on and so on) Thank you for polishing and practicing this brass instrument for years to get in this concert/band/marching band!
Sweetie, this is for brass instruments. We have more complicated parts of our instrument like pads and more buttons. Please never give your instrument a bath like a brass player would
My Low Brass instructor in High School was an old school DCI guy and he always had a mandatory clean and polish party before competitions and this really took me back. It was backbreaking work cleaning a whole contrabass but man that thing was pretty when I was done.
I taught public school instrumental music for 36 years and I am a brass player. I recommend this video to all band directors as well as all brass players. There is a lot to learn here. This video should be shown to all instrumental music teachers!
excellent video...As a young 7th Grader over 52 years ago, my band director hammered home the importance of keep your instrument CLEAN..I still impress the cleaning peocess to all of my tutoring students...
Thanks for sharing this! I'm a new band teacher and I played percussion/piano all through HS and college. Never really understood why people were interested in other instruments but you made your horn look so good lol XD
@Joshua Rogers It just annoys me that people say horn all the time when it's a euph or trumpet or whatever, when the nickname for the f horn is the horn (which I play, btw)
The first 30 seconds in, I can tell I'm in for a treat. So chill and informative too. You answer just about everything I could ever wonder about when cleaning it haha :)
TheDerpNinja I SHOULD DO THIS! I play the tuba which would be EXTREMELY time consuming but I own my dad's old pea-shooter (basic trombone) that hasn't been cleaned in almost 35 years
Vanskid5 Some companies do make polish for gold instruments, but from playing the sousaphone (tuba) we have figured out that windex works pretty well on the goldies. Our 12 silvers take forever to go through this process of Hagerty's polish or the paste while our secondaries are done in 15 minutes or less
I tried Brasso on my instrument today to clean it. And holy cow, it did a phenomenal job cleaning all the oil off of there! Looks so awesome. Thanks for the great tip!
I'd refrain from using Brasso on slides as it is an abrasive polishing compound. Try using a degreaser like purple power. It'll remove all that old oil and grease without messing with the metal . . . well, unless you don't rinse thoroughly. The balloon tip was cool; very clever! All in all, a very cool video, man. I feel like cleaning horns is such a foreign concept to a lot of music students, and it's refreshing to see something like this.
A word of caution... Brasso is meant to polish door knobs and brass rails, NOT musical instruments. If you have a non-plated instrument it WILL take the lacquer off and ruin the finish. I would stick to just soap, water, and polishing cloths for the inexperienced. I'm all for educating on good horn care but, if you're in doubt, PLEASE take your horn to a professional to get it cleaned.
Thank you so much for this! I never really was told how 2 clean my horn and, while I’ve picked up some things, your guide here is the most extensive one I’ve found yet
@@randomperson4254 The little pads under the keys fell off, and the peices wouldn't go together right. I tried to use just the mouthpeice, but it didn't make any noise
Such a great video! Very clear and extremely easy to follow. I've never heard about the balloon trick before, but it's so clever! Also, that is such a gorgeous horn you've got! Glad to see its being taken care of.
One thing he forgot in the video: Felt pads, which are common on many brass instruments, should NOT get wet if you can help it. Remove them and leave them outside the tub, and just put them back on when you’re done; they generally don’t need cleaning. If you feel you absolutely need to clean them, use another method.
Glad to see I'm not insane for doing this to both my concert and marching horns, though hadn't thought about using the brasso. What slide grease are you using? Thanks Luke! When all else is gone, the bones always remain.
Yo this is actually helpful. I play a silver trumpet, and it’s only been 3 months since I got it, and already it’s looking real dirty. This just solved that for me. Thanks bro!
Trumpeter here, with the trumpet 3rd slide, the slide used when playing D, can break trumpets if not careful, and make sure if you decide to removing it, press 1,3 when taking it out and putting it in
My section uses some of this stuff to clean our good sousaphones and it takes a long time but it’s so good in the end because it’s literally a mirror and we’ve had them for over 5 years now and they still look new.
