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Re: how do i clean my hard rubber clarinet

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2009-10-12 02:46

Swab it our ever time you finish playing it, and wipe it with a soft dry cloth. That's all that's necessary. Unless you dropped the instrument in a tar pit, nothing more is needed.

If you absolutely MUST clean the small crevices, use a dry cotton swab, making sure that any "lint" from the swab doesn't stick in any of he tone holes. You can even used "canned air" to blow dust from inaccessible places, a long as you use short puffs and keep the nozzle sufficiently far from the pads and corks so the pressure or the cold propellant doesn't damage anything .

Unless you're adept at disassembling and reassembling the whole clarinet, uing any kind of cleaning liquid or powder is asking for trouble.

Better a bit of dirt here there than risking really screwing up the keywork, pads, tone holes, and fine adjustments.

B.

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