Bathing Your Tuba

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Okay your going to want to take out and it's important too and you may want to do this now. When you take out your valve, keep them in the order that they appear on the tuba because they are designed specifically and only for that particular valve combination. So if you if you mix these up for example it's not your to hurt the instrument but if your wondering why your not getting any sound it's because something in this valve is blocking the air stream out of it. It's just that slight difference in design. So keep them in order. Take out out all of the tuning slides of the instrument okay again that is done by pressing down, taking them out, laying them out in good order and that basically what you need to do in terms of those component parts. In the meantime, you just take either this soap that I was showing you or ivory soap but warm water. You never want it hot and you certainly don't want it cold okay but just nice lukewarm water until the water starts to get sudsy. I tend to fill the tub up completely to immerse the tuba in it. Just put it in, let it soak for five minutes. Okay the interesting part is after that five minutes and your going to hear and feel how much water that has accumulated in this instrument at that time. What I tend to do, is just get in the shower at that moment so that I can stand around, twirl the horn around and your going to get an immense quantities of water coming out. What you want to do is make sure you've got a nice rubber mat in that shower so that you don't slip because if you do you could get hurt and you could also damage this instrument vary much. So, but anyway, then once you've done that make sure all the suds. Your probably are going to want to end up running some just water from the shower over it to get all of the suds off it. Once that's done bring it back out the area where the other stuff is. Let it air dry for about one hour, okay. And then once that's done then start the process of putting the valves back in. Remember when you put the valves back in, the horn is going to be a little bit dry. You definitely need to use the valve oil for that and the tuning grease for that but please for the life of your horn. Do this orderly cleaning four times a year.

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