Using a Buffing Cloth for Tuba Cleaning

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Hi everybody. Kevin Smith back, Tuba Love. Talking about buffing cloths. I've got three buffing clothes here and they're really for the appearance of your instrument. For example, I have a silver tuba and love the sound a silver tuba makes, but it tends to show smudging a lot more than a lacquered brass or a raw brass tuba. That is the one thing I've notice about a silver tuba; it's propensity to show smudges a lot more. These buffing clothes are nice soft cloths that you just buy in stores. This one actually came with my instrument. It's a nice soft cloth generally cotton designed just to buff the horn with. Just take a nice motion like this where ever you want to get some of the smudges out and they don't always look like they're coming out because sometimes the silver shows the smudge, but none the less, I'll see spots and some of these are just age spots. Some other spots I'll see are just finger marks and I put the cloth over there and now it's nice and shiny. This cloth of the three you'll see this side here and this side over here. This cloth is for silver-plated instruments. It's designed to pick up a lot of the tarnish that collects on the instrument. I'll dip it down the bell because I get spit that comes out of the bell a lot. My tuba doesn't use spit valves the same way most tubas does. It gets rid of the spit the same way a French horn does. A lot of that is coming out of the bell. If you can just do that nice soft motion with these cloths and this is just a collection of the tarnish for the last three years that I've owned this cloth. You can just use the other side once you get the tarnish off and just buff it down a little more. These are just cosmetic, but if you've got an instrument you play it out somewhere you want it to look nice and the cloths are just an easy way to keep your horn looking bright and shiny.

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