How to Remove Spots on a Tuba

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Hi everybody. Kevin Smith back tuba love. Just a brief description and discussion about what I call just spot cleaning the instrument with a soft cloth and some water. Again, it's mostly just a cosmetic thing but it's something; like if I've been playing and I see like a few spots. I'll get not just nuts on my tube and dirt spots, but because I have to turn the horn around to get the spit out I'll sometimes get those spit spots, if you want to call them, or leaks or whatever and you know just little pieces of dirt that seem to come around. They are not hurting the instrument at all, but it's so easy. I've already got the water because the kitchens out there; but I just use water. You don't want it ridiculously cold and you certainly don't want it boiling hot either. Just kind of lukewarm, tepid water. This is sort of like my combination. I call it my spit shirt and my cleaning cloth and I throw it in the laundry, pretty much on a regular basis. It's pure cotton. Just get some lukewarm water on it and just go over the spots that you want. I saw a couple little dirt spots showing up there and there and there. I kept one side for the water and I got one side dry. I can go buff run. No major deal, but it is just kind of a good kind of a way to keep; again, I like to feel like; especially, like I said early these horns are major investments so if you are going to spend that kind of money, especially if its someone that ends up spending that kind of money; I think the incentive is going to be that much stronger to want to do everything in your power to try to make the horn look nice. That's just something you can do on a very regular basis that'll just make your horn look better.

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