How to clear a saxophone after you play?

The five-minute routine after his play

Do it always in the same order and with an open case next to them, so as to leave the saxo in balance onto a chair while looking for the accessories.

1. Take his clamp and his cane and dry his cane with his fingers from his base to his end and put his face onto his face.
2. Take out the tidal nozzle with a smooth turn and put a clean cloth inside.
3. Take his tuel back by holding his tube, never by his octave key, and put his small neckplate back about two or three times.
4. Enter the body's eschotel's weight through the bell, turn the saxe to come down the tube and get out at the end where the tudel goes, and pull it up slowly. Repeat two or three times.
5. If some slippers became moist, cover them with absorbing paper, especially those that are closed, as with that of sustained Sun.
6. Clean with microfiber his body's prints and keys and put everything in his case.

The escobilion should be of an absorbing fabric (gamuza, microfiber or silk) and of the size of your saxe: a tenor is tightened at a height and a high one does not get to dry a tenor. Wash them every while and let them dry widely, and do not enroll them into a box.

Nipple, clamp and rods

The nozzle

Once a week wash with warm water, some soft soap and a nozzle brush. rinse and let it dry into the air. If ebonite (the black material of most study nozzles), hot water, chlorine and sun decolor and can deform it. Do not scrape the end or edges where the cane stands: a rayon there changes the sound forever.

The clamp loosens after completion and does not tighten up while playing, because the screws are swept. If you also play clarinet, nozzle care and clamp care is about the same and we explain it in how to clear and care for a clarinet.

The rods

• Don't leave the cane put into the nozzle inside the box: it's deformed, and it's broken and it's picking up mushrooms.
• Keep it flat with a carrier and keep it straight while it's dry.
• He's broken three or four rods: they last longer and you learn to recognize what's best.
• Fold her a few seconds before she's touched and leave her with a long scuba.
• Unload if his tipple's clear, his face's wavy, his face looks stained or his face's out.

The tightness of cane depends on your nozzle and your level and should be defined with your teacher. We have been trying them with our guide to [choose your first saxophone]](/blog/como-elegir-tu-primer-saxofon).

Sticky shoes: why and how to solve them

A sticky slipper can be seen as a small snap at the opening of the key or as a note that takes us to leave. It happens as sugar, food remains and saliva accumulate onto the skin of the slipper and at the edge of the hole (the chimney). The most affected are those that pass closed: that of sustained Sun, that of serious Do and that of My serious bemol.

How to treat her

1. It puts thin and non-rubber absorbing paper (slippers paper or paper with no stick) between the slippers and the fireplace.
2. Press the key with a few seconds and put it down and remove the paper.
3. Repeat with a clear part till paper goes out without stains. Do not make paper with a tight key: you can rip the leather.
4. If the problem goes back to a few days, the slippers may be old or deformed: get them to the technician.

How to prevent it

Gather your teeth or rinse your mouth before you touch, avoid touching right after you drink soda or eat sweets, and dry wet shoes before saving. Never wear alcohol, oil, loose talco or spray cleaners onto the shoes: alcohol resists the leather and so on only disguise the problem for a few days.

Exterior, complete and mechanism

Most studio saxes are lacquered (the glow gold finish). A dry microfibre cloth after touching is enough, because the sweat of your hands is acid and with time stains the lacquer. Never use brilametal or creams to polish metals: they eat the lacquer. If your saxe is silver, use a specific silver cloth.

The mechanism (rods and screws about which the keys turn) requires a drop of oil for keys from time to time, but that's the job of the technician. Never use cooking oil or multi-use spray lubricants on the keys.

If the nozzle enters the tidal cork very hard, applying very little cork fat. If it goes low and moves, the tidal cork and the technical changes it quickly. By assembling, hold the tidal with the tube and body with no keys, close to the bell: to force the octave key or rods is the most common way to mismatch them.

Strap, support and case

Check every while that the strap hook clears well, that it isn't cracked if it's plastic and that the tuning doesn't slide while you play. Change the strap if the elastic or leather are ceded and do not get up and get up with the saxo and hang with a hand without holding it.

For pauses, use a saxe stand. A chair, bed or floor are not secure places: the saxo wheel, someone sits or pits it, and a bent key stops sealing.

• The saxo should not move into the closed case and if you dance, padded is worn out.
• Don't put up scores, atteries and wires where they can press keys.
• Keep the tuel and nozzle in their compartments and close all the brush.
• Do not leave him in the trunk of his car or in the sun: the heat affects his shoes and can damage his lacquer.

In a wet climate as at the coast, leave the case open for a while after playing. More details about how to save instruments according to climate in Colombia.

Maintenance and visit schedule to the technical

Do not wait for an annual review if serious notes do not come out or come out with an effort, if a note sounds with an air escape or if a key was bent after a blow. It's usually a leak, and force the blow to make up for it creates bad bug habits.

Your teacher knows how to distinguish between a note that doesn't come out by technique and a note that doesn't come out by instrument. our Teachers Directory found saxophonists evaluated and saxophone classes See how they work.

What you should never do with your saxophone

• Keep the pellet cleaner (the hairy brush that gets into his body) inside his saxe: keeps his moisture attached to his shoes. Use it to dry and get him out.
• Fold up a jammed socket and get him out of his place and get his tech out.
• Wash the whole saxe with water: the shoes are leather and felt and are damaged.
• Using clamps to get a nozzle or a glued tuel.
• To give the nozzle: for hygiene, each saxophone player should have his own.

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