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Author: Ken Rasmussen
Date: 2000-09-13 04:22
After long use the upper section toneholes will have deposits adhering, presumably breathed in with the air stream. I've been scraping them out with a screwdriver when I do an overhaul, but I don't really like running steel against wood. Is there a better way to remove the grunge, or better still, keep it from being there at all? I find that the gradual accumulation of material is the principal cause of poor response from the instrument. It takes a long time to accumulate, but it eventually has quite a marked effect.
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Author: Lindsay
Date: 2000-09-13 04:29
Try a little sterisol germicide, it's a cleaning product safe for wood and all other instrument surfaces, and use a q-tip--that's what i do!
Lindsay
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2000-09-13 04:45
Ken, I also use q-tips and alcohol. Just take the keys off and clean it out. The idea of scraping the tone holes with a screwdriver is to me, like scraping fingernails across a chalkboard - it scares me. There shouldn't be too much of a problem, as long as you were careful. Next time - think Q-tips :-) -- Nate Zeien
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Author: Steve
Date: 2000-09-13 17:02
I've often cleaned my tone holes with a really fuzzy pipe cleaner. I've found that Q-tips sometimes lose their shape and support.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-09-14 23:38
Arts and crafts shops sell extra-long, extra-fat pipe cleaners that are just great for cleaning tone holes.
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Author: Beejay
Date: 2000-09-19 06:56
The big sponge-tipped rods (like Q-tips) used to apply eye make up work just fine.
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