What household items can you use to clean a flute?

While rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, soap and water, or Windex can be used for cleaning the exterior of your flute, anti-tarnish silver polish does the best job of keeping your instrument tarnish-free and shiny.

Can you wash a flute with soap and water?

You can do this with a few sprays proper instrument disinfectant or a small drop of dish soap, and warm water. Make sure that all the soap is off before drying it with a cloth or paper towel. After playing your flute, it’s important to clean out any liquid in your flute. Don’t leave a damp cloth in your flute.

How do you clean an old flute?

How do you deep clean the inside of a flute?

DO NOT use alcohol on the mechanism (keys) of your flute. This can dry the mechanism out and cause binding. Use a clean soft cloth to gently wipe down the body and keys. Thoroughly run a clean dry cloth attached to your cleaning rod through the inside of the tube.

How do I clean and disinfect my flute?

Using a cotton swab saturated with denatured, isopropyl alcohol, carefully clean around the embouchure hole. Alcohol wipes can be used on the flute’s lip plate to eliminate germs if the flute shared by several players. Using a soft, lint-free silk cloth inserted into the cleaning rod, clean the inside of the headjoint.

Can you clean a flute with Clorox wipes?

To answer simply, it is not recommended to use clorox wipes for your flute but you can most certainly use them to clean your hard case. The reason for this is that bleach is a corrosive chemical that can actually damage your silver flute and damage your headjoint, cork, keys, and pads.

How do you clean a moldy flute?

You should thoroughly clean it with water and soap. Thereafter use a cloth soaked in either vinegar or bleach to wipe off the whole flute. In this case maybe vinegar would be better solution since it’s natural. What ever you use it’s best to use gloves in the process.

Can I clean my flute with hydrogen peroxide?

FLUTES:​ can wipe down the head joint mouth plate with isopropyl alcohol. You can also use a pad saver instead of swabbing. Use a silversurface polish cloth to remove fingerprints and tarnish. Use hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol once a month to wipe down the mouthpiece.

How do you clean a stinky flute?

for the headjoint, I run warm, soapy water through it at an angle in the sink. Angle the headjoint so that the water does not get the cork wet. Rinse well and dry thoroughly with a soft cloth. I do this with the HEADJOINT only.

What happens if you dont clean your flute?

But woodwinds, perhaps, have it the worst, according to research presented at a recent asthma, allergy and immunology conference. If they don’t clean out their instruments on a regular basis, black mold can build up inside and cause a condition called “Saxophone Lung.”

Why is my flute turning brown?

How do you clean a flute with toothpaste?

Flutes turn brown due to tarnish. The tarnish is the result of a chemical reaction between the silver of a flute and the various compounds it comes into contact with. Even so, it may cause problems if allowed to fully erode, so it is best to clean the tarnish off.

Can you use wd40 on a flute?

Take a tooth brush and tooth paste and scrub your flute down with it. Make sure you use lukewarm water before and after to rinse it off. I tarnished my flute by accidentally soaking it in 3% hydrogen peroxide for too long so it got all tarnished but the toothpaste helped it a lot. To disinfect it I use mouthwash.

Can I clean my flute with alcohol?

2 – Old oil – For this you need some penetrating oil (something like WD-40) . DO NOT SPRAY THE FLUTE WITH OIL! Take a small plastic bottle cap and spray a bit of the WD-40 into the bottle cap. Then dip the end of a large needle or toothpick into the oil so that you get a small drop of oil on the toothpick.

Can I put Vaseline on my flute?

To clean your flute use “saliva” or rubbing alcohol on your cloth. To keep pads clean, don’t eat candy or chew gum before playing and never while playing.

Do you oil a flute?

Don’t ever use petroleum jelly or slide oil on the tenons of flutes or piccolos. It just makes a gummy mess. The petroleum jelly attracts dirt and gets thick and gummy.

How do I get my flute unstuck?

Oiling the instrument should be done three to four times during the first month, and once a month after that However, if the bore or the ends of the tenons look dry then don’t hesitate to oil the flute on a more regular basis. Firstly, pull the flute to pieces. It is not necessary to oil the inside of the head joint.

How do you break in a new flute?

As Victor has said, wiggling from side to side is your best option. Try to grip bare tube as far as possible; putting pressure through the keywork can bend the rods and push pads out of alignment. A (gentle) tap against a hard object can sometimes help to unstick the joint, but don’t overdo it.