Cleaning Your Trombone

Instructional video on how to clean your trombone. Often overlooked by young trombone players. Visit www.NickLaRiviere.com for more free trombone instruction!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Trombone
• clean
• mouthpiece
• slide
• shower
• student

[SeaNinja45]

If you do this fairly often(about once a wek) will it cause any type of rusty material?

[niclariv]

@SeaNinja45 No, your trombone is made to get wet, it does all the time from spit and condensation.

[cheereeo]

Read this about bacteria and health risks from playing trombone.

Google NPR and Scott Bean

[niclariv]

@cheereeo Wow, great article. Thanks for that! I still say not to use soap or detergent because that can leave a coating on the slide that could make it stickier... However, clean often and thoroughly with water and a cleaning snake, and I suppose given that article if you haven't cleaned it in a while maybe it would be a good idea to use something to get rid of the bacteria and mold ;)

[Stormbubi]

music in background?

[niclariv]

@Stormbubi Just a little something I whipped up :) check out my website for more of my music, the address is in the video

[unstroxii]

@Altomcjiggle Yah, you might taste the last persons mouth. ;)

[Altomcjiggle]

Hey I play the trombone, I recently started, I haven't cleaned my mouth piece yet,

will there be any problems if I don't

[zazudragon85]

what temperature of water should you use, or doesn't it matter?

[llord2]

thank you very much for this video, i plan on using this method in the future.

p.s. you are an amazing Trombone player

[llord2]

@xDjAsOnF use an old raggedy shirt that you would use for dusting.

[supersonicfan123]

I've got a question, I bought a trombone for my beginner year for band (6th) it was rusty looking and I now want to make it shine. What do you need to make it shine? Thanks.

[xDjAsOnF]

not very smart to use a towel to clean the inner slide

you will end up with grease on your face when you use the towel after showering

[josueetcom]

I have an old trombone I haven't played for a while because I've been using another one. It's pretty rusty but with sliding oil it still works well is there a way to remove the rust?

[RegiFilms]

@SeaNinja45 that rust is from breaking down of the metal from the acid in saliva

[aeroeagle1877]

Sweet

Thank You