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Author: stebinus
Date: 2004-12-19 20:03
Is there any way to get the smell of mildew out of a wooden instrument? It was left in an old case for a week.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-12-19 20:05
Febreze?
Or replace it with another smell (my vote is for a nice pipe tobacco)
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2004-12-19 20:34
(Disclaimer - I make a case odor eliminator, wood cleaner, pad cleaner)
If the smell has not gone too deeply into the pads you can remove the smell from the clarinet by cleaning the wood with a good wood cleaner that will not remove too much of the oils - e.g. Murphy's oil soap, etc. You should clean the pads with a suitable cleaner such as a 5% solution of diswashing soap in warm water - Dawn is a good one - with Q-Tips and then rinse them with clean water on a Q-Tip. You can also consider speciality cleaners designed for the intended purpose.
Mildew smells and mildew growth and spores are difficult to remove from old cases and a special cleaner should be used which will remove the odor but also kill the spores of the Mildew fungus to keep it from returning. If the case is not vintage you should consider tossing it.
The Doctor
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-12-20 07:10
Hey Doc, isn't the solution you sell just forensic cleaner? The stuff they use for cleaning up decomposing body (some enzyme mixture) gets rid of bad smells. It seems that the Doc's case deoderizer is the same stuff. It should work pretty well, then.
I've tried to get rid of bad smells in my cases, and I have tried Febreeze, soap, Lysol spray, and airing out. But nothing worked.
Yeah...
--CG
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2004-12-20 11:07
CG - I have not found any decomposing bodies in instrument cases lately except for one student a while ago that was practicing 24/7 for recital but never showed up on the day of the recital and was later found in his case. The enzymes are indeed the same variety used in "Forensic" cleaners but that is not a good sales connotation.
The Doctor
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-12-20 20:38
Aww, I think that would be a cool sales tactic. "Clean away your decomposing bodies today! Or just a mildewed case."
Then again, I have been bad with sales pitches. My friends tell me that Crapple juice isn't a good name for Cran-Apple juice. :-/
Super cool!
--CG
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Author: stebinus
Date: 2004-12-21 07:21
You might be hearing from me Doc. Somebody on another board gave me your contact. In case anybody else wants it: http://www.doctorsprod.com/contact.html
Post Edited (2004-12-21 07:56)
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