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How To Care for your New Trumpet
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Caring for your new trumpet:
Your trumpet needs to be cared for properly in order to maintain good use. The valves, valve casings and the slides of the trumpet need to be maintained regularly.
A NEW trumpet needs to have the valve casings cleaned and oiled DAILY for about 2-3 weeks while you break in the valves. And then, after the break-in period, about every 14-30 days. If proper care is not given, the trumpet valves will begin to become sticky. Do not be alarmed if starts to happen, proper cleaning of the valve casing and valve piston will bring the valve back to normal fast action.
To clean piston valves, remove pistons. Wash the pistons and the inside of casings with liquid dish soap and a very damp piston brush. Pistons are easily dented, so handle them carefully. Rinse with warm water, then dry with clean cloth. Lubricate the piston and the casing with the valve oil and re-assemble. Be sure to put each piston in the proper casing. Number one casing is the nearest to the mouthpiece; number three is nearest to the bell. Each piston is numbered. Each piston also has a plastic tab under the spring that fits into a keyway in the valve casing. Some trumpets have two keyways, a larger and smaller, be sure to inspect and properly install the piston with keyway.how to tune a trumpet
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tuning the trumpet Tuning a TrumpetTuning The tuning of the instrument is more important than one first might think. When one plays exactly in tune with the instrument, it resonates the most, and the effort to play the trumpet is diminished. In this way, it adds endurance and the sound will be better. In [...]
How to Buy Your First Trombone
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You've decided on a trombone but what is the difference between a slide trombone and a valve trombone ? Well there are the obvious physical differences, but there are also differences in the sound and style of play. The Tenor Bb slide trombone is the most commonly seen trombone. The slide trombone works by moving [...]
how to buy your first trumpet - a guide for beginners
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As the trumpet is not as commonly played as say a guitar or piano the prospective trumpet player, such as yourself, is often found wanting of the information necessary to choose your first instrument. The first thing you must consider is what pitch of trumpet you choose to play. There are 8 different pitches but [...]