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Re: Yet one more reason to clean your clarinet

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2013-11-10 15:42

You can clean mouthpieces with an antiseptic spray or periodic vinegar soaks (don't soak the cork). Maybe one day soon someone - Omar Henderson, perhaps - will start marketing a swab impregnated with some kind of antimicrobial material. I don't imagine it could survive washing, so it would probably need to be something that could be renewed on the swab after it's laundered.

Reeds can be sprayed with commercial antibacterial products (the ones I've bought seem to be alcohol-based with a heavy mint scent).

Maybe some kind of ultraviolet light could be inserted in the bore and left for a period of time (I don't know what kind of heat the ones currently available for other purposes generate). They market ultraviolet antimicrobial lights to treat aquarium water for fish and amphibious reptiles.

Karl

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