Care for and Maintain a Trombone

5 Parts:

Clean the Spit Valve on a Trombone

Clean the Trombone

Oil Trombone Slides

Tune a Trombone

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. We are going to show you several Trombone related videos tackling different aspects of how to care for and maintain your Trombone.

You're watching VisiHow. This is a video tutorial on how to empty condensation from the spit valve on the trombone.

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   The trombone, as you know, is a brass instrument, which requires warm air to move through it. Warm air builds up and creates condensation, or spit, that needs to be released. The end of the slide on the trombone has a spit valve. The spit valve allows all of the condensation to be released from the trombone when pressing down on the valve.

   

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   Blow hard into the mouth piece in order to empty all of the condensation. Remember to blow really hard to get rid of it.

   

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Video: Use the Spit Valve on a Trombone

You're watching VisiHow. This is a video tutorial on how to clean the trombone.

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   When you begin cleaning your trombone, the first thing you need to do is to hold the trombone and unscrew the bell from the slide.

   

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   Once this has been done, you can put the bell down.

   

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   Now that we are holding the slide, you must take the big stick in order to clean all of the residue from all of the slide.

   

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   For the big stick that you'll put into the slide, take a small cloth that comes with your trombone and attach it to the stick.

   

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   From this point, make sure that it's in all the way and that it's not going to get stuck in the trombone. Put it in all the way to pull out all the residue. Continue to go down and up to collect all the residue and condensation that has built up.

   

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Video: Clean the Trombone

You're watching VisiHow. This is a video tutorial on how to oil the trombone slides.

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   Begin with unscrewing the bell, placing it down, and taking out the mouthpiece.

   

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   Now, take out the brass encasement to expose the slide.

   

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   Once that's done, get your Yamaha or a different type of trombone oil that you will need to use.

   

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   Before this, take a towel and wipe any residue or condensation off the whole slide.

   

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   Now, let's start applying the oil. Take the oil and apply it to all of the parts of the slide. Do not leave any part of the slide without oil. You can use as much oil as necessary in order to increase the fluidity and consistency of the oil throughout the whole slide.

   

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   Once the oil has been applied to the whole slide, we can begin putting the slide into its place inside the brass encasement.

   

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   Continue to move the oil around back and forth until it is smooth. We have to make sure that there is no spot left without oil. This helps to increase the fluidity and range of the trombone, so that the whole trombone is saturated in the trombone oil.

   

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   Once this has been done, you can apply some water by sprinkling it onto the slide. This will further help the oil spread to the rest of the trombone slide.

   

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   When this has been done and you feel that the slide is fully oiled, you can screw it back onto the bell; and you can begin to play.

   

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Video: Oil Trombone Slides

You're watching VisiHow. This is a video tutorial on how to tune the trombone.

Steps

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   In order to tune the trombone, make sure that your instrument is ready to play and that you take a deep breath in order to warm up the instrument and then begin to play.

   

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   We can notice that the note in the video is a little too sharp. Now, we pull out the tuning slide a bit to adjust the tuning.

   

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   Still, it seems that the note is a little too sharp.

   

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   So, we pull out the tuning slide a little more to make the note a little flatter. We play again.

   

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   Now, the note is a little too flat. So, we will push the tuning slide in to tune the trombone.

   

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   We continue adjusting the instrument until it is in tune.

   

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Video: Tune a Trombone

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