At 5:23 AM -0700 6/15/03, Herbert Foster wrote: >Cotton swabs, little balls of cotton on the end of sticks work even >better: you >can work the glop out instead of pushing it in. Q-tips are twice as good, they >are double ended.
Also, there are longer single-ended cotton swabs available. This reminds me of a story my boss told me when I was working in a music shop. He said a jazzer brought his alto sax in, saying that it just didn't play right anymore. As Mr. Morgan was poking around the horn to see what was going on, a huge glob of junk plopped down, stopped by the bell turn. The entire inside was coated with what seemed like a lifetime deposit of who-knows-what. I think that some careful thought would be beneficial if you ever have "globs" of anything inside your horn. A friend just showed me his oiler, which was a tiny snout from a Krazy Glu package (snout not attached to the glue container) which fit perfectly on the top of a regular valve oil bottle. The snout was an inch or so long. Neat. Carlberg Jones Toluca, Edo. de México. MEXICO _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
