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Author: *~Sabrina~*
Date: 2003-09-01 06:20
does anyone know of a site that can help me on cleaning my flute or does anyone know how is clean a flute. I never really learned how. I would take it to a shop to get clean but i dont got the money for it. It has like dust and starting to kind get rusty too. It really dirty under all the springs and everything.
Thanx for your help.
*~sabrina~*
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Author: richard
Date: 2003-09-01 14:28
Can you buy a flute cleaning kit at the cost of about $10.00 ? The kit contains pad cleaning paper, polishing cloth, cleaning swab and tone hole cleaner. The tone hole cleaner (stick-like shape) can remove the dust under the keys. But I cannot help regarding the rusting on the keys, head joints, body. I myself has a rusty flute that I played for many years and I found no solution to remove the rust.
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Author: ~Heather ~
Date: 2003-09-01 14:51
I was going to suggest that, but yea get a flute/piccolo cleaning kit at your music store and they do sell for about $10, because that's what I use. And for the rust there MIGHT be some solution that you could buy(maybe not for an instrument but maybe for tools or something)and you could probably use a little bit of that to get the rist off, but before you do it make sure you know what you are doing so you dont ruin your flute.
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Author: the_oboist/flutist
Date: 2003-09-01 17:12
I also suggest a flute cleaning kit. The only solution I know of for rust is to have your flute chemically cleaned, but that could really harm it. My flute has a little bit of rust on it and I would suggest to just polish your flute well and leave it alone as long as the rust doesn't continue to get worse.
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Author: miller
Date: 2003-09-04 07:27
to get rid of the rust and the dust under the springs would be to take it to a proffesional because otherwise you could end up harming the flute
i managed to break one of my springs on a flute i had a while a go and even though i had it replaced several times it never really fixed and was forever popping off
at one point i ended up having to have an elastic band around the trill key the spring controlled it got so bad
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