The Wrong Cloths for Buffing a Tuba

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Hi everybody. Kevin Smith back, Tuba Love. I'm going to show you know some of the wrong cloths to use for buffing your tuba. Earlier on, I showed you specific cloths to be used for the purpose and if this seems a little silly or superfluous to anybody, believe me I've seen enough people using the absolutely wrong things to take care of their tuba. I want to give you at least some ideal of specifically what not to use. As I said earlier, I have this shirt; cotton is great. If you've got a cotton t-shirt or whatever; cotton is a nice soft non-abrasive thing. If you've got other materials what happens is you'll find little scratches that will show up on the horn. Again, their not going to damage the sound production, but they're going to scratches the instrument. Keep in mode of cotton; keep it simple. Cotton, cotton, cotton. You don't want something like this which has a combination of some polyester and it is rigid and they'll say "Ah, this is soft enough, I'll go ahead and just buff my horn down". No. The minute you do that, your going to have from this thing tons of scratches. This towel I use as my spit towel. Great for the purposes of keeping the spit off the floor. Don't use bath towels. Again, they tend to be rigid, rough and will scratch it the same way that a standard watch cloth or towel of that nature will do. Anything ridge like that. Keep it simple. Just remember cotton. Cotton, your going to be fine. Lastly, you don't want things like this. You definitely don't want Brillo pads. You don't want to say "Oh, I'll give my horn a nice scrubbing with a Brillo pad". No, that thing is going to look pretty hurting when your done with it. So cotton all the way.

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