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How do you clean and maintain the bassoon?

Updated: 9/27/2023
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MEOWvsBARK

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The bassoon has a cleaning swab that you stick in through it's pipes. You do this with the "boot joint" and the "wing joint." The swab looks like a cloth with a string of silver metalic beads at the end.

When cleaning your bassoon, you always stick the string in through the bigger end, and once it's in pretty far, you just tip it a little and you pull.

The swab rarely gets stuck in the bassoon, but if it does, you may need a proffessional to get it out.

Also, before you put your bassoon away, be sure to blow air through the wrong end of the reed as well as your bocal before closing your bassoon case and putting your bassoon away.

Sometimes though, if your bassoon gets dusty, you may need to use this little toothbrush thing to get rid of the dust.

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13y ago

The bassoon has a cleaning swab that you stick in through it's pipes. You do this with the "boot joint" and the "wing joint." The swab looks like a cloth with a string of silver metalic beads at the end.

When cleaning your bassoon, you always stick the string in through the bigger end, and once it's in pretty far, you just tip it a little and you pull.

The swab rarely gets stuck in the bassoon, but if it does, you may need a proffessional to get it out.

Also, before you put your bassoon away, be sure to blow air through the wrong end of the reed as well as your bocal before closing your bassoon case and putting your bassoon away.

Sometimes though, if your bassoon gets dusty, you may need to use this little toothbrush thing to get rid of the dust.

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For regular maintenence, I suggest a dropcloth or swab of some sort, and a mouthpiece brush. I find that before concerts and such if I scrub my moutpiece out well with the brush, my tone is better. Hope I helped!

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with sperm rub it all over the bassoon and on the reed

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14y ago

You clean it just like the Clarinet but you you use a bigger thingy

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