Thanks, Carlisle, for your comments. For the first 10 months I owned my
horn, that is EXACTLY how I oiled it. It still got gummy between cleanings.
May be it's something about the Holton? I dunno. Or maybe pulling valve
slides out & shoving them back in over & over again actually pushes slide
grease closer & closer to the valves? When I did oil it the other way, I
sure needed a lot more grease as it disappeared somewhere in my horn. All I
know is that my valves work so much better since I stopped oiling them
through the slides.
Here's a cleaning tip: I stitched strips of soft cotton cloth into little
"sleeves" about 6 or 7 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. This little
sleeve fits nicely over the eraser end of a pencil for cleaning out the
inside of narrow tubing. I can dig out more nasty stuff using this little
sleeve on a pencil because it can go deeper than a wadded cloth alone. I've
been intending to make a little sleeve to cover the end of my snake brush as
I'd rather have soft cotton coming in contact with the insides of my horn
than a scratchy brush. But, that's a project for another day.
Valerie, Balanced Embouchure Student
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