Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Process Of Brass And Woodwind Sterilization

By Jody Leach


Players of wood instruments would be using their mouths in order to play these instruments. Now the thing about using wood instruments is that since one would be putting it inside his mouth, he is actually susceptible to harmful germs and bacteria that would enter. Because of this, one would have to regularly 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 the first step that one would need to do would be to disinfect the part wherein one would put his mouth in. This is where the special disinfectant would come in as it would specially clean the mouthpiece after it was used by the owner. So one should never forget to buy himself a bottle if he plays this kind of instrument.

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.

Once this step has already been done, then all one has to do would be to rinse off the soap. One has to thoroughly rinse the instrument after all of those steps have been finished so that he will not put alcohol, disinfectant, or soap in his mouth. After rinsing it, then all he has to do is wipe it a little, and then he can play it again.

So if one owns this type of instrument, he has to make sure that he cleans it this way regularly. This is done so that his hygiene will not be affected because reusing that thing over and over again without cleaning it will spread germs around. So he should probably clean it around once or twice in a week as to avoid any build up of bacteria or germs.




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