Ph: 02 9439 1143   Email: glennclark@intunemusic.com.au
Address: Suite 101, 48 Atchison St., St Leonards NSW 2065

Hints and Tips

Care and Maintenance Key Benefit
Hassle-free enjoyment
Reduced servicing costs
Protection of your musical instrument investment

Woodwind Guidelines
Flute, Clarinets, Saxophones, Oboes


Daily
Swab & Clean your instrument after you finish playing
Remove reed  from your mouthpiece and return to it's reed case

Weekly
Clean your mouthpiece using a mouthpiece brush
Check join corks & apply cork grease if needed.
Clean & polish your instrument with a polishing cloth. 

Monthly
Check key action and apply key oil if needed.Bore Oil wooden instruments

Yearly
Book your instrument in for a service at least once or twice a year. 



Return your instrument to it's case when not in use
Do not place music folders inside the instrument case as this can damage the instrument 
Do not eat or drink immediately before playing your instrument (avoid soft drinks.) 
Don't leave in the sun or boot of a car

Brass Guidelines 
Trumpets, Trombones, Baritone Horns,
Euphoniums, Tubas

Daily
Check valves are sufficiently oiled, apply valve oil if needed. Check Trombone slides have enough slide cream andwater.
Move tuning slides

Weekly
Clean your mouthpiece, using a mouthpiece brush.
Check tuning slides are greased properly 
Clean & polish your instrument with a polishing cloth. 

Monthly
Dismantle, wash & clean your instrument.
Dry, rebuild, grease, cream and/or oil.

Yearly
Book your instrument in for a service at least once or twice a year 


Make sure that you never use excessive force to insert the mouthpiece into the instrument 
Do not place music folders inside the instrument case as this can damage the instrument 
Do not eat or drink immediately before playing your instrument (avoid soft drinks.) 
Don't leave in the sun or boot of a car