How do you clean a tuba?

Answer 1

First clean the mouthpiece. Rinse it in warm water, and add soap if necessary. Clean the neck and body with a swab, and use a polishing cloth on the outside of the instrument. Whatever you do, don't put any part of the instrument except the mouthpiece in water, this will cause rust and removal of the lacquer plating. Also avoid cleaners and liquid polishes, a mess waiting to happen, and if they are chemical ingredients, highly damaging. Enjoy your clean sax!

Answer 2

# prepare containers of water, etc. before starting. # Remove and disassemble all slides and valves, remembering how they go back together. # Take the body of the tuba and set it on top of a towel in a bath-tub full of warm, not hot, water and a little mild, non-abrasive soap. Rub gently with a wash cloth to remove all gunk. If you have to pick the tuba up during cleaning be very careful because it's heavy when full of water. # Get a strong person to help you carefully rotate the tuba head over heels,so to speak, to get all the water out and then let it air-dry on a soft bath towel. # While it's drying place all slides in the soapy water and rub gently with wet paper towels to clean. Clean the insides of them with the snake. Rinse them in the clean water then dry off with a paper towel and set them somewhere safe. # Put all parts of the valves except the felt or rubber bumpers(which are very easily replaced if need be) and any other parts that aren't metal in the soapy water and clean with wet paper towel. Rinse in normal water and dry with more paper towels. Don't use the snake through those little holes in the valves. # When all parts of your tuba (or other brass piston instrument), including the body are completely dry, reassemble the valves , putting a few drops of valve oil around the top of them and twist them back in to place on the tuba. # Before putting the slides back in, put a small amount of slide grease on the part that goes inside the tuba and rub on with a paper towel, not your finger remember, and wipe off any excess. Then slide back into place on tuba and re-tune before you next play.

Answer 3

Cleaning a Trombone is quite simple. Throughout this process, be sure to handle your slide carefully as it may be damaged easily, especially when the inner slide is not inside the outer slide. To clean the slide: For starters, gather your slide, a mild dishwashing detergent, a sink, and a snake, which is a long object with a brush on either end (please; metal snakes can scratch the inner surface of the slide, so always use a plastic snake!). 1. Using your hand to make a cup shape, funnel warm water into the slide as it is assembled. If you wrap your fingers around the sink faucet and the top of the slide, you can actually make it like one giant pipe, and water will come right out the other end. 2. Fill slide about 2/3- 3/4 of the way up both sides, and then place a drop of detergent in each side. Stick the snake in one end and with vigorous scrubbing motion try to get the inside foamy and clean. Repeat for the other side. 3. Dump the soapy water out of the slide, and using your hand funnel run water through the slide until it is clear. 4. Remove the inner slide and set it on a long towel. Be VERY careful. 5. Repeat the filling, scrubbing, rinsing process with the outer slide. 6. Repeat the filling, scrubbing, rinsing process with the inner slide. It will be trickier to scrub this, so just use your hand, wrapping it around and moving it up and down. 7. Put the slide back together and rinse one last time with warm water. 8. Oil and lubricate your slide. I suggest Slide-O-Mix lubricant, as it gives the best glide. Directions are on the box. "The Rest" 1. It is always safe to sponge dirt and material off your instrument. Especially the bell may be prone to water spots, so this is the most effective way to remove them. Dry after wetting with a sponge. 2. If your trombone is dirty or discolored, a professional chem-clean is your best option. 3. To keep your trombone in good shape, use a polishing cloth for lacquer if your trombone is brass, or for silver if your trombone is silver. Valves 1. Special care should be taken when it comes to cleaning rotors and valves. If you have not been trained first hand in the art if disassembly and reassembly, leave this job for professionals.

Answer 4

How to Clean a Clarinet

• Supplies:

1) Cork Grease

2) Bore oil (for wooden instruments)

3) Mouthpiece brush

4) Silk swab

5) Small paint brush

• Before you play:

1) Apply cork grease to all corks.

2) Soak reed for at least one minute.

• After every time you play:

1) Take the reed off of the mouthpiece and return it to its case.

2) Take the weighted end of your swab and drop it into the bell of the clarinet.

3) Let the weight fall through the body of the clarinet and pull through. Repeat two or three times.

4) Take clarinet apart and place each piece back into the case.

5) Take mouthpiece brush and insert it in the back opening of the mouthpiece. Scrub inside of mouthpiece with brush. Place mouthpiece in case.

• Once a week

1) Brush outside surfaces of instrument with paintbrush to remove any dirt and fingerprints.

2) Wash swab.

Answer 5

First take apart your brass insument. take off the mouth peice and the valves and for me i have a Trumpet so i take out the valves and the bottom of the valves that look like buttons. After taking off everything fill a tub or your bathtub with water. you only want the water to reach half of the instrument. keep the water warm and not to cold of hot. put a little dish soap in the tub/bathtub. leave it in for 10-20 min. after that take a snake and go through every peice and make sure the soap is all out. put it on a towel and let it sit till its dry. put new oil and greeze on and reasemball it. and now its all clean.

You can clean the valves by putting oil on them or take out your mouth piece and take a pipe cleaner with paper towels around it and go down that part

Answer 6

Mouthpiece- Use a snake. (Looks like a pipecleaner. Just stick it inside your mouthpiece and it will clean out anything stuck in it.)

Valves- Unscrew them and wipe them off with a papertowel. Then use your valve oil and squirt about three drops of oil onto the valve. (I would put the papertowel in the valve casting just to make sure there is nothing in there either.)

Slides- Use slide grease. Push in the valve to make sure there is no extra grease on the slide.

Trumpet- Use a cloth and wipe off the trumpet. Make sure there's no finger prints on it :D

I would do this one to two times a weak. You could always take it to a shop to avoid having to do this though.

Answer 7

to clean an Euphonium use alot of soap and soak it in water

Answer 8

The slide comes off and that way you can empty excess spit from the inside.

Answer 9

give it a bath