5/19/2015

Useful Tips For Brass And Woodwind Sterilization

By Tammie Caldwell


You need to take good care of your precious musical instruments. A real musician treats his or her instruments like a baby. Woodwinds are some of the most attention seeking instruments. If you are not playing them for a few days or weeks, you need to clean them through a do it yourself sterilization process. This will be outlined in this article so read on.

Musicians also need to have good hygiene. If they get sick, they will not be able to properly play music. Flute, saxophone, brass, and trumpet are examples and they have mouthpiece where the air being blown from the mouth travels to the instrument to produce beautiful music. Brass and woodwind sterilization Woodruff, WI has practical recommendations for cleaning.

These are the kind of instruments where bacteria can easily thrive. When it comes to sterilization, it is not necessary to sterilize the entire thing. You will only need to do that to the mouthpiece. The rest of the parts also need to be cleaned but using a different method like wiping it with dry cloth.

Clean it regularly because it is the dirtiest part of the woodwind. The first tip is to collect all the needed stuff for the sterilization. You will need a mouthpiece disinfectant, and alcohol with high percentage of disinfectant, hot water in a cup, and clean cloth. Be careful since you are using hot water. Do not allow yourself to get burned. Otherwise, you will not be able to play for quite some time.

Once you got them all, start with the cloth and the special disinfectant immediately. Pour a small amount to the cloth and wipe it to the piece. Thoroughly wipe it so that all corners are treated. This can be found in music shops so it should be easy to find them.

After which, get the alcohol and wipe it with the cloth again. This is also a disinfectant which kills germs and bacteria that have been accumulated while the instrument was at rest. It is just as simple as pouring and wiping. You will have to make sure all the corners are wiped.

You can now begin with the sterilization. Get the cup of hot water. Be very careful. Then soak the soap and mix in. Then immediately soak the mouthpiece. Do this for twenty minutes maximum or fifteen minutes minimum. You may also take it out as soon as the water starts to cool a bit.

Then get one more clean and dry piece of cloth. Wipe it dry as well as the other parts of the instrument. This needs to be germ free before even attempting to put it in your mouth and play. As much as possible, keep disinfecting and sterilizing. These are the basic simple things you must remember.

Aside from hygiene, it is important to clean your woodwind because it can be easily destroyed. It may sound awful if there are so many dirt in it and all around it. So make sure that you take care of both your health and your precious instrument.




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