Author: Ursa
Date: 2020-03-29 21:57
My attitude towards used instrument has not changed:
I own, have owned, and play vintage instruments that date back to the 1890s. Someone exposed to smallpox, polio, or TB may have touched or even played these legacy instruments at some point.
It can be stated with a high degree of certainty that people with measles, mumps, chicken pox, and other infectious diseases have played the instruments.
On top of that, it was once common practice to clean brasswind instrument bores by flushing them with cyanide solutions.
Given all that...I still don't think twice about giving a used wind instrument a toot, as long as it's with my own mouthpiece, or with one that's just been sanitized.
It's not as if I'm going to sip water through it.
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