How to Clean a Tuba with Brushes

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Summary: Use the right brushes to clean a tuba as to not damage the brass instrument; learn how with tips from our professional tuba player in this free tuba video music lesson.

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Kevin Smith Kevin is 51 years old, and a poet and therapist as well as tubist. Kevin has played a variety of musical styles over the course of his life, as well as a vari... read more

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How to Clean a Tuba with Brushes

Hi everybody Kevin Smith back, TubaLove, doing general maintenance of the horn. And I'm talking about cleaning brushes now and their importance in keeping your instrument clean. I've got three different brushes here, right now with me. The longest here, and I'll show you what they do in a minute, is called a snake and for obvious reasons. It kind of coils around like a snake and it's really really long. Okay, this is just used for anywhere within, if I want to go in here, into one of the valves and I just opened up one, but I want to, if I feel like there might be a little sludge in there that I want to get out, that nice little pointy one is just good to get stuff off the sides, around that area. I'm going to show you again. I just had that one in my hand, so I demonstrated that. Give me a chance to put that back in here. And this last one here, which as you can see is about the same length as this one, but it's a lot fatter, or brushier, whatever you want to call it.