Best Way to Clean a Trumpet

Music by Quantum Jazz

[ColeZoar]

Lol I watch this everytime I clean my trumpet because I forget everytime

[zachs]

Great video, ill be using this video to clean out my trumpet this weekend. It's almost 5 years old and has never been cleaned like this... yikes!

[kendallwithluv]

Just cleaned my trumpet for the first time! This video was a hugeeee help. Even though i didnt have a snake hose thingy, i just used a new toothbrush that has soft bristles. When i get a proper snake brush ill clean it better. But thank you! Youre a livesaver! My trumpet constantly empties spit on me through the horn and mouthpiece so cleaning it out helped a lot! Plus i have all star band in 4 days so i now have a clean trumpet to play! Thank youuu

[EngPheniks]

Every musician has that one time experience. Unable to blow his brass instrument a few minutes before the concert performance and realizing that the valves were actually numbered and inserted in the wrong tubes 😄

[AcoAegis]

New video: how to clean your marimba.
First, set fire to your instrument -

[elimckellips]

I've always been told not to brush out the valve casings with bristles because it can cause extreme damage on professional trumpets where the casing is very flush with the valves. just a moist paper towel used gently will work wonders without damaging the horn.

[psaubrey]

Good instructions, although for a young student, I would NOT take the springs and felts out of the valves. This is asking for something to get lost, put back together wrong, etc. I would just hand wash the valves instead of submerging them, where the felts would get saturated with water. If the felts DO get saturated, it is not the end of the world - just carefully dry them off. If the springs get wet that doesn't matter - air dry.

[valstevens]

I am in a 7th grade band class advanced and my parents scraped up enough money to buy me a thousand dollar Bach trumpet [i got it last year ] . on 11/18/2016 Friday i went to school with my trumpet already in the band room. I have band as first period of the day and there is 3 more periods ahead of me. I entered my band room to do some homework, while walking over to the rack where all of the instruments are stored i fined my trumpet case open and my mouthpiece out of the case to the side. I freaked out and took my trumpet and found 3 large dents about the size of a penny [ one on the bell and two more leading upwards. I told the teacher about this and he did nothing about. put a lock on your case...

[Xogb]

Man, i got to the part where you need the trumpet

[masthedog]

Thanks so much! I have been wondering how to clean my trumpet for a while now.

[shanefm]

The caution trumpet players have compared to tubas (except in drum corps) when it comes to dents is hilarious. My tuba is 90% dents, a good 10% to make it tunable and I see the same thing everywhere except orchestral performances and drum corps. And even with the orchestra their personal ones are usually dented as all  hell.

[ooofest]

Thank you, this gave me confidence to clean up and repair a used trumpet we found and it's in far better shape now.

[DrowseeGameplay]

Is it OK if I don't disassemble some parts of the main body? 2 of my tuning slides are stuck, and I hope the water with get rid of the blocking, or what ever the reason it's not coming out.

[dogsbody]

DO NOT grease the 3rd slide!!! OIL IT, otherwise you will find it is too sluggish to throw quickly when you need to use it to adjust intonation. Same goes for the FIRST slide.

[dalek]

Just cleaned my horn and all turned out fine. Thanks for the helpful video!

[arxe]

Best tutorial I’ve found here since every other guide had errors at some parts

[lartes]

I congratulate you on making a really concise but very detailed video on how to clean a trumpet. You really fit a lot of info into just a short amount of time. By the way, about 1 year ago, Katelyn Mckellips mentioned here (in your comments section) that it would *not* be a good idea to clean out the valve casings with a brush - especially on more expensive trumpets - (because it might scratch the casings, ect.). She said that using a moist paper towel to clean out the valve casings is a better alternative. (Probably by pushing the bunched-up, moist paper towel through each one of the valve casings with something like a wooden dowel.) Her thoughts with regards to this sounded like good advice to me.

I've recently ordered a new, inexpensive trumpet (online), and I'm planning to wash it with water before I oil and grease it and re-assemble it. However, I am really "paranoid" about submerging the new, inexpensive trumpet in water. Do you think that doing that might possibly do some damage to the cheap, gold-colored finish on the instrument? (Frankly, just the thought [generally speaking] of putting a trumpet completely under water makes me kind of uneasy.)

I would appreciate it if you would be able to reply to me. Thank you very much.

[jessicakraus]

Fantastic video. Made the job so much easier. Thank you

[thegrimsleeper]

How to freak out a starter player!

Number 1: after he/she cleans it tell them to put the valve numbers the wrong way

Number 2: laugh when they flip out saying they can’t blow the trumpet

[connorm.]

Great video! I always come back to this one before I make a trumpet bath