Tuba Cleaning

Lee Jacobs · Post by **Lee Jacobs** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:01 pm

Soak it in a bath tub with dish soap and scrub out the insides of the tubes with a snake thingy (that's a technical term for those long things with a brush on the end you can buy at music stores). Scrub the valve casings with a stiff brush (i.e. toothbrush). Then rinse it all out really well. Then finish using silver polish on the entire horn following the directions on the polish.

hurricane_harry · Post by **hurricane_harry** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:58 pm

what he said^ for a silver polish i would suggest hagery silver polish, u can pick it up at your local hardware store.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:02 pm

The soap-and-water cleaning is useful, but not to be confused with the needed chemical cleaning by a qualified repair technician once in a while. Some have their tubas cleaned that way once a year. I do so much less often. But soap and water will not remove the built-up mineral deposits that accumulate in the instrument.

Rick "who does both" Denney

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:22 pm

hurricane_harry wrote:what he said^ for a silver polish i would suggest hagery silver polish, u can pick it up at your local hardware store.

I really like this stuff. Pick it up at an auto parts store:

Rouge is the polishing ingredient. Says so right on the can.