Cleaning Your Euphonium
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- A clean euphonium is a happy euphonium! Includes how to use Herco Spitballs for cleaning; valve springs; plastic coated valve springs. Tools used:
Swab: HW Products - fave.co/325NXIL
Spitballs: fave.co/2QYNeTk
Thank you for this. I am working on bringing a 90 year old euphonium back to life, and was looking for some cleaning tips, especially cleaning the satin-silver plating. I found your video through the Hagerty's website. This is perhaps more for basic maintenance, but I still learned more about the piston valves than I would have expected after playing low brass (tuba mostly) for 30 years. I've now re-seated my valves and springs on my tuba, and it's MUCH quieter! I thought it was a padding issue. And after visiting your website, my euphonium is probably a baritone. The family who gave it to me called it a 1/4 tuba.
Thank you sir
Excellent educational video David.
Great video Dave!
As a fun anecdote and an entirely "DON'T DO THIS', NEVER lubricate your horn with vegetable oil. I did this ONCE with my baritone horn and forever learned my lesson that not all oils are similar. Until I flushed the entire horn, I smelled rancid vegetable oil for months. My excuse? I was a kid.
Use a piccolo cleaning rod with a lint free cloth.
Thanks!
I use blue juice for valve oil
The portals in the valve piston MUST be cleaned….not mentioned in your video.
Great video. Wouldn't you want to also take a cloth or swab and clean the inside of the valve cylinder when you have the valve out? I usually wrap a cloth around a plastic piece I have and put it in the cylinder and move it up and down a few times.
I find that is unnecessary most times. However, if I find the "gunk" in the bottom cap has built up, then swabbing the cylinder is usually necessary. Probably should have mentioned that!
I used a toothbrush to scrub the inside
I have a euphonium that I’ve had since 8th grade, and one of my valves have a hard time going back up after being pressed down for a few seconds. I can’t find anything on the internet explaining this
It's usually built-up dirt of calcium deposits, but it could also be damage like a bent tube that puts pressure on one valve casing. Head over to my forum and post about this - you may get some good suggestions: www.dwerden.com/forum/forum.php
Have you cleaned and oiled it?
Can spitballs be used with rotary valve euphonium?
Thank you for making this video! Is there is a specific name for that cleaning swab stick? I did some Googling and came up empty.
It is made by HW Products. Here it is: fave.co/325NXIL
You mentioned switching valve oil. I use Hetman Synthetic Lubricant 3. Are you familiar with this brand and, if so, is it a clean functioning oil?
Thank you
I use Hetman #1, the thinnest they make, and it's great. My repair guy says it helps keep the horn clean because of corrosion inhibiters. However, when breaking in a new horn, I like using standard oil because I think that is better for cleaning out the left-overs from manufacturing.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and always answering questions.
What does it mean to flush an instrument?
Many things, but most common is to run soapy water through the horn under high pressure, making sure to use each & all valve combinations.
Hi David, how would I go about cleaning a Besson Prestige.
The same way, except you have to disassemble the trigger mechanism first. I have never worked on a Prestige, but if you go to my forum you can poke around there and find at thread or two where that is described. If you can't find the answer, then just ask the question there. We have several Prestige players. Go here:
dwerden.com/forum/
and then click the "Forum" button at the top of the page. Then you can see the various categories offered.