Bath Time

dancingflutist3000 · Post by **dancingflutist3000** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:13 pm

Our band director told us today that our mouth pieces were
starting to get gross and smell so as a result on thursday our band is going to
clean our instruments! It really isn''t a big deal for the wood winds and
especially flutes because...since we have pads on our instruments we can''t
give them a TRUE bath. The brass have it lucky because they can wash their
instruments out totally with water. Either way I think it''s going to be
fun!

BandGeek16 · Post by **BandGeek16** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:28 pm

NEVER SUBMERGE A FLUTE IN WATER! I speak from
experience...

dancingflutist3000 · Post by **dancingflutist3000** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:00 pm

Like a said, we couldn't put any woodwind instruments in
water because of the pads. If the pads got wet they would mold and not be useful
in cover holes.

flutietootie4lyfe · Post by **flutietootie4lyfe** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:30 am

They also expand and crack which is the main problem. In
marching band it rained so hard once i had to get ike 4 new pads blaaaaaaah have
fun