Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The Brass And Woodwind Sterilization Process

By Jody Leach


Being a wind instrument player requires one to be extra clean because he will be putting his mouth on the mouthpiece every time he plays. Of course he would not want to put his mouth on a mouthpiece that has not been cleaned for days as this is just plain unhygienic. Of course in order to keep his little instrument clean, he would have to do a brass and woodwind sterilization.

Now one does not actually need to sterilize the entire thing as it will not really be necessary. The part that he would really need to clean up regularly would actually be the mouthpiece because this is where one will be placing his mouth. So the very first step would be to gather some things for the job.

Basically, there are pretty much only four things that one would be needing for this type of job. These four things are a bottle of alcohol, a special mouthpiece disinfectant, a clean cloth, and of course a cup filled with hot water. Now for the mouthpiece disinfectant, usually music stores would be selling them just in case one would need a bottle.

Now after he has gathered all the necessary materials, then he will now need to put some disinfected on the mouthpiece. Now the thing about the disinfectant is that it will clean up all the dirt that can be found on that part. It is made out of a special solution that would actually take away any dirt or other kind of substance out.

The second step in the process would be to then pour some alcohol on to the mouthpiece. Now the alcohol is there for the sole purpose of killing all the bacteria and the germs that cannot be seen. So one should first pour some alcohol on that part and use a clean cloth to wipe it a little bit so the the alcohol will be able to spread around.

After one has already done that, then the next thing that he should do would be to get the glass of hot water. Now after he has gotten the glass of hot water, he should put just a little bit of soap inside. Once he has mixed the soap with the hot water, then he should soak the mouthpiece in there for a few minutes.

Now after one has soaked the instrument in the hot water and soap mix, then he has to rinse the instrument. He can do this by putting it under a faucet and let the running water take away all of the remaining substances that are there. Once one feels like the instrument is already clean, then he can wipe it off with a cloth.

So basically, those are the steps that one should take if he would want to clean his wind instrument. Now he has to do this regularly if he would want to keep it clean from any harmful germs or bacteria. He should probably do this around once or twice a week depending on how often he would play his instrument.




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