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Re: Sterilizing

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-01 14:03

This hearsay, but according to my woodworking husband, wood in the rosewood family, which includes grenadilla, is particulary hostile to germs. I've bought filthy old clarinets for years at flea markets, yard sales and junktiques stores. YMMV, but I rarely get sick anyway (maybe thanks to Mom letting me grub around in the dirt as a child!), and as far as I know I've never caught so much as a cold from a used clarinet.

I wash all mouthpieces (new or used) with dish detergent and lukewarm water, and I throw away any reeds I find in a used instrument's case. I only disassemble and wash out a clarinet and its case with soap and water if it's visibly dirty or moldy or if it stinks. That means I do wash out quite a few! -- but I don't go to any extraordinary lengths to try to sterilize a clarinet because, as others said above, that doesn't work anyway. I dry a washed case open to the sunlight.

Lelia
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