Posted by Clean clean clean on July 09, 2003 at 00:21:37:
In Reply to: Breaking in a new tuba posted by Tony on July 08, 2003 at 20:12:07:
keep 'em clean, oil EVERY time you play, and avoid eating prior to playing.
Of course if you have trench-mouth like ME, they still gum up occasionally.
Then I just clean clean clean. Someday I'll go in there with a borescope
and consider the need for chamfering the ports or some such nonsense,
but for now cleanliness does it!
dp