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Part of the video series: Tuba Maintenance & Cleaning

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Summary: Use the right brushes to use to clean your tuba; learn more with tips from our professional tuba player and teacher 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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Brush Tips for Cleaning a Tuba

This is for the mouth piece stem, which I'm going to talk about more later, too. But anyways, that just kind of coils up as you go and takes care of the mouth piece. And this one again for the spot cleaning. The two, the cleaning snake is the one that I tend to use the most. You start going and play. You know, you got stuff in your mouth, no matter how clean your mouth is and you got spit and this and that and the other. And it starts to build up, so periodically and I'm just going to do one example here on this, on the third slide. It's just taking that down. Ok, you got some stuff in there you want to get out. Put the two inch slide in. Just let it go down as far as it will go. I don't know. I'd just done this recently so it probably won't show a lot of stuff. Now, the stem too, the mouth piece stem, you can also, and I do this on occasion. If I feel like I haven't done the cleaning with the smaller brush for a while, just to go in there because the stem is an area that really does need to be cleaned regularly. So, at any rate, yeah there's a little of that nasty little gunk right there, and God forbid that came out of my mouth. But I guess when it collected with all the oils, it did. So anyways, these are the primary cleaning brushes, and they are really useful in just helping as I said keep your instrument clean.

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