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Author: Drew
Date: 1999-10-18 01:50
I use a two stage method:
Using warm water (body temperature), soap and a mouthpiece brush, give that mouthpice a nice scrub and rinse. Make sure you don't get crazy with the brush and damage the tip.
2 hour soak in lemon juice, you can substitute with vinegar.
Not sure how much dinsinfection occurs, but the mild acid solution will dissolve any alkaline deposits and make your m/p smell lemon fresh. Rinse well.
Try to keep the cork from getting too wet; a fresh application of cork grease before starting is a good idea. The idea is not to soak the cork (I use a small joice glass for the lemon joice soak and only fill the glass to within a 1/2" of the cork).
Regarding re-infection, your body is already fighting off the virus, so not much to worry about there, although getting everything clean regularly is a good habit to get into.
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Author: HIROSHI
Date: 1999-10-18 05:46
I doubt the origin of the smell exists only on the surface. It may be hiding 'inside' of the mouthpiece wall intergranulars. Lemon juice,vinegar,hidogen peroxide, whatever may get rid of the smell tentatively but the smell may start again. In that case, 'just throw away it and buy a new one' will be the best choice for your health. Also I am not a chemist, but suspect that hydrogen peroxide(H2O2) has a active oxigen,which kills germs, may also affect some ingredients of galvanized hard rubber. They are not a simple hard rubber but a proprietary mixture of unknown materials. (Maybe this would be answered by mouthpiece blank manufacturers such as Zinner.)
I myself think these phenomena are the results of misunderstanding of those 'axioms': Do not touch the inner surface even by swabs. Some of the teachers are surprized to find their pupils' mouthpieces smell very bad and find even a debris of teeth dirt or other food remnants.
What thickness of inner surface will be wiped off by swabbing the inner of mouthpiece? Maybe, 10th of micron or even smaller. If not cleased each time, dirty debris can do worth than swabbing to the sound it emits.
I make it a rule to wash my mouthpiece after each practice by flowing potable water and get rid of water by just movint it fast, and sometimes by swabbing it slowly. My mouthpieces have never smelled bad since I started clarient 30 years ago.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-10-18 18:35
Hiroshi,
I don't think all that many people are worried about the bore/chamber of the mouthpiece wearing as much as they are in the wearing of the sharp edges in the interior portion of the table. Since the edges are sharp, the friction forces are multiplied on the edges and could conceivable wear them to a rounded shape.
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