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The sugars found in gum and candy are very harmful to your instrument. The Horn is made up of very soft metal, this is why it dents so easily. The soft metal in the horn will be slowly eaten away, negatively impacting your tone. Also, since candy is sticky, it can cause your valves to stick

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There is few symphony player's who have problem's making saliva because of there age so they have to use gum to help them get the proper saliva base to play correct.

Just don't stick the gum under your chair the band director might get a little angry.

and yes if you do chew gum and all to build saliva you'll have to clean you horn at lease 1 a week or so to keep it up and if you want to learn the best way to learn to clean a horn I will Advise you to go to the SFA web site and got to Dr. Gary Wurtz he has a whole page on the subject.

(use chapstick works Wonder's and save's load's of time)

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