How to clear a trumpet at home?

After each practice

1. The water empties: press the drain key (the pallet with cork in the tuning pump) and blow without vibration of his lips. If water remains in another pump, press the corresponding piston while blowing or pounding out and empty.
2. Remove the nozzle with a soft turn and put it back into his box compartment, and do not let go.
3. A microfiber cloth goes through the outside: the sweat of the hands is acid and stains both the lacquer and silver.
4. Keep the trumpet in his box mold and close all his knickers.

To brush your teeth before you touch makes a huge difference: food and sugar remains end up at the entrance tube (the one with the nozzle) and form a bad smell and stink the passage of the air.

How to Oat pistons

The pistons have to come down and up quickly and without noise. If they feel slow, sound or stick, it's time to get them.

1. Unscrew the top cover of a piston and get it out to half.
2. Put two or three drops of piston oil onto the metal surface.
3. Reput and turn it gently until the guide (the piece that stands out aside) lights up into its slot. You will feel a click.
4. Toss the cover without more tightening and press the piston several times to distribute the oil.
5. Repeat with the other two, one at a time.

Each piston has an engrave number (1, 2 or 3) and only works on his or her shirt. If you get them out at all, do them one by one and put them on a towel, never on a hard surface where they can roll. And don't mix oils of a different type, as a synthetic with an oil-based one: some combinations get thick. If you change oil, clear the pistons well earlier.

Bomb grease: which goes at each

The pumps are the U-tubes that are extracted: the main tuning and one for each piston. They carry fat to seal the air and slide effortlessly.

1. Before you remove the main tuning pump, check your place or put it with a pencil to get back to it.
2. To get the bomb out of a piston, press that piston while you're at it. Otherwise, the vacuum will get it out at once.
3. Clean old fat with a cloth.
4. Apply a thin layer of new fat at the end of the pump.
5. Reput it back, move it several times to distribute the fat and clear up what's outstanding.

The main and second piston tuning pump carry regular pump fat. The first and third, that many trumptists move with their thumb and tipple while they play to correct tuning, they better work with a lighter lubricant or a pump oil and ask your teacher what to use. At the end, check the tuning with [tuning machine].](/herramientas/afinador).

If a bomb does not move, do not hit or wear clamps: it pits or a welding takes off. The technical removes it with the right tool. The trombone shares some of these care, but his stick asks for other care and we explain this in how to clear a trombone.

The complete bathroom, step by step

Once a month if you play daily, or every two or three months if you play less, the trumpet needs an inside washing.

1. Put a towel at the bottom of a tub or a big ponchera so that the metal doesn't scrape.
2. Take out his nozzle and pistons and all his bombs and leave his pistons apart: his felt and his corks do not sink.
3. It's filled with warm water, never hot, and adds a little soft, light and citrus free soap.
4. Summer body and bombs about 15 minutes.
5. A flexible snake brush passes through an inlet tube, pumps and body tubes and a shoulder brush inside each piston shirt.
6. rinse with clear water, dry out with a soft towel and let run.
7. Clean pistons with a moist cloth without wet felt, seal and put new oil.
8. Fold up the bombs and put a gun to the trumpet and try every piston.

Check out what's out of the entrance tube: if a lot of green or brown dirt goes out, you better wash more often or order a thorough cleanup at the next review.

The nozzle: cleaning and care

Wash once a week with warm water, soft soap and a nozzle brush, that enters at the thin end and cleanes the internal tidal. rinse and dry.

• Don't let her fall: a blow to his espiga deforms and stops tipping well into his trumpet.
• Put it with a soft turn, without hitting with the palm: that's how they get attached.
• If glued, do not wear tweezers: the technician takes it out with a nozzle extractor in minutes.
• Don't share her. At high school gangs it's common to lend her but by hygiene every student should have his own.

The size of the nozzle influences your sound and your endurance and if you are wondering what to use, check the guide to choose your first trumpet.

Products you should never use

A homemade trick that appears to work the first time can leave the pitted lacquer forever. To be sure, ask the technician or your teacher.

Beatcuts, dampens and visits to the technician

The trumpet has thin pipes that are easily drenched and an inlet or a pump abolish affects tuning and response. For pauses a support, never put back onto a chair or ground. Once a year, or earlier if a piston is leaked though oil or there's a visible abolishment, get it to a metal technician.

If you play at the high school or at a local level, your trumpet lives at once: sun in parades, rain, pitted cases at the bus. That's how these care care goes with double. If you're thinking about joining one, read how to start with a band of windsand [class of trumpet]](/clases/trompeta) Your teacher will check with you the status of the instrument.

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