Klarinet Archive - Posting 000721.txt from 2000/10

From: Karel Vahala <vahalakv@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] The guck inside your mouthpiece
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:56:08 -0400

There is an article called "mouthpiece mouse" which works well, providing you
take care that the plastic end-guards have not fallen off.

Karel.

William Wright wrote:

> It's really necessary to clean the interior after each playing
> session, not just every once in a while.
> However, you *don't* want to pull a full-sized clarinet swab
> through your mouthpiece. This will damage the various sharp edges.
> What I do is gently push a piece of Kleenex (tm) into first one end
> of the mouthpiece and then the other end, without pulling the tissue all
> the way through, and then I rotate the tissue a little bit in order to
> do some mechanical scrubbing.
> Another approach is to use a swab for a smaller instrument which
> will pass easily through a clarinet mouthpiece.
>
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