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Summary: Submerge and clean the body of brass musical instruments, such as trumpets, trombones and tubas; learn how from our expert horn player in this free instrument-cleaning video.

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Duane Carter Duane Carter is a musician/writer/librarian from Los Angeles, California. He studied trumpet at Locke High School with jazz greats Bobby Bryant, Sr. and Oscar... read more

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How to Clean the Body of a Brass Instrument

Hello! My name is Dwayne Carter and on behalf of expertvillage.com, we are here talking about cleaning brass instruments. I have my brushes, a mouthpiece brush, which we are going to use in this case to clean the slides, the third, first and second slides and then I have the snake. After letting the horn soak for a little while lift it slightly and insert the brush into the slide area. I will do that for each of the slide openings plunging in and out making sure it is clean. Then I am going to do the first valve slides, when doing the first, third and second valve slides you have to be careful that the tip of the brush does not scratch the inside of the valve casings. So you do not want to push too hard in there and then finally I will take my brush and clean the valve casing and then I will take my snake to make sure the lead pipe is clean. Just let it run all the way through and pull it out. Now we have cleaned the body of the horn.

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