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Summary: Clean mouthpieces for brass instruments like the trumpet, French horn, trombone and tuba ; learn how from our expert horn player in this free instrument maintenance video..

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How to Clean Mouthpiece for Brass Instruments

Hi. Well, now that we've pulled some unknown vicious materials out of the body of our instrument, we're going to delve into our slides and cleaning our mouthpiece. So, why don't we just pick up our mouthpiece, and inspect the inside of the mouthpiece. Yeah. Yeah, I think that looks relatively clean to me. But, to clean your mouthpiece again, I take a clean piece of this terry cloth, and place it over the top. And I have, you know you can use again different forms of... Let's get it wet. Different kinds of cleaning shafts and different things that manufacturers make, but I find you know a piece of a clothes hanger and some terry tube I just weave in a little bit of the fabric in there, and push it around, with the warm soapy water, and just make sure that it's there's nothing too dirty in there. I've got half of it done there, I pull it out, pretty clean. Your mouthpiece, really, you know, it's essential that you keep it clean for sanitation purposes. It's really I call mouthpiece like you?re a brass player, your mouthpiece is like your underwear. You're not going to want to share it with anybody, and it's really a good way to transmit germs if you're going to pass a horn around. So that's clean. That's the mouthpiece. We'll place that over on our nice soft, we should probably have a nice soft area to place all your parts once they're dry, someplace to keep them organized.

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