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Author: bryris
Date: 2005-10-25 01:58
What is the proper way to get the moisture from the sockets? I have heard that its not good to use the actual swab in there.
Is it good to use a separate cloth, put your finger in the cloth and run the circumference of the socket?
Any special techniques?
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Author: Steve B.
Date: 2005-10-25 02:16
I keep an extra handkerchief in my case to dry the tennon sockets. In this way you do not get cork grease on your swab which could later be transfered to the bore.
Steve
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Author: pewd
Date: 2005-10-25 02:57
we just had a thread on this recently i think.
i use a handkerchief also (cotton) ; finger in there, wipe around the circumfrence just like you said.
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2005-10-25 07:32
Q-tips come in mighty handy for rather quick and efficient tenon drying.
With Qtip just go around the base while twirling Q-tip picks up EVERYTHING. Useful to clean nasty crud that builds up too.
-Piko
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-10-25 09:19
I use a piece of household paper towels to dry the sockets and the normal pull-through swab for the bore. The mpc and reed get rinsed with lukewarm water before being dried. (rag through mpc, reed carefully wiped with paper)
Then I grease the corks as necessary. (I do it after cleaning, not before assembling the horn)
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Ben
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Author: ghuba
Date: 2005-10-25 09:38
Microfiber cleaning cloths, available from an Internet music or computer or kitchen supply store, soak up moisture like a sponge -- much better than most swabs -- and wash out easily (air dry them) by tossing them in the laundry. The small sizes sold for cleaning eye glasses work especially well with tenons and sockets and mouthpieces. The same cloths (use a different one without cork grease!!!) also work well on LCD screens digital camera lenses and with computer equipment and will remove oils and grease from computers, clarinets, cameras, and your bifocals without cleaning fluid; in years of using them, I have never seen a clean one scratch anything including plastic LCD screens and eyeglasses. I always carry a couple of these in my computer case and keep them in all of my clarinet cases.
George
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2005-10-25 11:29
O.k., I'm thick. What's wrong with getting a little corkgrease on the swab that will eventually run back through the clarinet on the next cleaning?
Shameless plug: I currently use the new Vandoren microfiber swab in the stylish maroon color - absorbancy is magnificent but unlike compressable silk, I would never run it through a mouthpiece.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-10-25 13:02
> O.k., I'm thick. What's wrong with getting a little corkgrease on the swab
> that will eventually run back through the clarinet on the next cleaning?
We don't want horns with smeary innards. ;-)
Stuff tends to accumulate in hard-to-clean spots which will eventually influence the sound.
Side Question: What's wrong with running a [nylon] bottle cleaning brush through the dry bore every so often?
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2005-10-25 13:21
Side Question: What's wrong with running a [nylon] bottle cleaning brush through the dry bore every so often?
Answer: Nothing, as long as the bristles aren't too hard, but why would you want to do this on a dry bore?
I remember an old Albert system clarinet that had never been cleaned or taken apart (it was kept in one piece in the lid of an alto sax case) - the bore was encrusted with what looked like black sugar! I took a trumpet valve casing nylon brush to the bore to clean it.
I keep a piece of Bounty kitchen towel to dry sockets with (and to get water from the top joint toneholes) - Bounty doesn't break up like ordinary kitchen towels. Uh-oh! That wasn't meant to sound like an advert!
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-10-25 13:56
>> Side Question: What's wrong with running a [nylon] bottle cleaning brush
>> through the dry bore every so often?
> Answer: Nothing, as long as the bristles aren't too hard, but why would you
> want to do this on a dry bore?
Just because it likely to smear less. Dry residue falls out (or can be blown out) while wet residue might just stick someplace else. (I also brush my shoes only when they're dry)
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Ben
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