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Re: Do you swab your mouthpiece? DISCUSSION

Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-02-09 03:04

What Bruno describes is not "sterilizing" but at best "disinfecting".

One of the first impression people in "Old Europe" had of the Americans was that they found it necessary to disinfect everything. In the meantime we also use more often disinfectant sprays (mainly in favour of the chemical industry) and guaranteed germ- (and vitamin?) free fast food.

My teacher and I disinfect mouthpieces when we exchange the same clarinet, and I do so when I buy or sell a used mouthpiece. But for me alone I (as an old doctor) would find it absurd to desinfect my mouthpiece. I dry it, and sometimes I wash it. Tuberculosis bacteria and pathogenic bacterial spores might indeed survive for a longer time on dry surfaces, but at first somebody had to put them there. HI-Virus will not, and anyhow it is not transferred by saliva.

Post Edited (2014-02-08 22:11)

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