Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-01-05 02:58
I don't recall it attributed to Monty Python, but I do recall a joke related to,
"Typically nasty weather?" I first heard it while playing in an army band in the 1970s. Involved feathers used in creative ways...
But seriously, I've used feathers and silk pull-through swabs for over 30 years. Not too long ago it was observed to me using cotton swabs, although not pull-through, resulted in fewer water problems in the tone holes, and further once water gets in one, even an octave vent, using the cotton (requires pulling top joint off so slower than pull through) resolves the water better.
I have done this for the past 6 months and find it to be true. So, now I swab with silk a few times and then cotten, but go to cotten at the fist hint of water in a tone hole.
I don't use feather much now except to oil the bore. They seem to work better than an old silk swab because they don't bunch up and force excess oil into octave vents and trill tone holes. That my lie and I'm sticking to it...
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