Great video, ill be using this video to clean out my trumpet this weekend. It's almost 5 years old and has never been cleaned like this... yikes!

Lol I watch this everytime I clean my trumpet because I forget everytime

Man, i got to the part where you need the trumpet

Every musician has that one time experience. Unable to blow his brass instrument a few minutes before the concert performance and realizing that the valves were actually numbered and inserted in the wrong tubes 😄

Good instructions, although for a young student, I would NOT take the springs and felts out of the valves. This is asking for something to get lost, put back together wrong, etc. I would just hand wash the valves instead of submerging them, where the felts would get saturated with water. If the felts DO get saturated, it is not the end of the world - just carefully dry them off. If the springs get wet that doesn't matter - air dry.

Just cleaned my trumpet for the first time! This video was a hugeeee help. Even though i didnt have a snake hose thingy, i just used a new toothbrush that has soft bristles. When i get a proper snake brush ill clean it better. But thank you! Youre a livesaver! My trumpet constantly empties spit on me through the horn and mouthpiece so cleaning it out helped a lot! Plus i have all star band in 4 days so i now have a clean trumpet to play! Thank youuu

I've always been told not to brush out the valve casings with bristles because it can cause extreme damage on professional trumpets where the casing is very flush with the valves. just a moist paper towel used gently will work wonders without damaging the horn.

The caution trumpet players have compared to tubas (except in drum corps) when it comes to dents is hilarious. My tuba is 90% dents, a good 10% to make it tunable and I see the same thing everywhere except orchestral performances and drum corps. And even with the orchestra their personal ones are usually dented as all hell.

I am in a 7th grade band class advanced and my parents scraped up enough money to buy me a thousand dollar Bach trumpet [i got it last year ] . on 11/18/2016 Friday i went to school with my trumpet already in the band room. I have band as first period of the day and there is 3 more periods ahead of me. I entered my band room to do some homework, while walking over to the rack where all of the instruments are stored i fined my trumpet case open and my mouthpiece out of the case to the side. I freaked out and took my trumpet and found 3 large dents about the size of a penny [ one on the bell and two more leading upwards. I told the teacher about this and he did nothing about. put a lock on your case...

New video: how to clean your marimba. First, set fire to your instrument -

Thanks so much! I have been wondering how to clean my trumpet for a while now.

Thank you, this gave me confidence to clean up and repair a used trumpet we found and it's in far better shape now.

DO NOT grease the 3rd slide!!! OIL IT, otherwise you will find it is too sluggish to throw quickly when you need to use it to adjust intonation. Same goes for the FIRST slide.

Just cleaned my horn and all turned out fine. Thanks for the helpful video!

Great video! I always come back to this one before I make a trumpet bath

I don't play trumpet. Why am I watching this?

Didn't mention the fact that the plastic part under the spring in the valve should be taken out before rinsing, lost mine and now I have to get another one😕

Fantastic video. Made the job so much easier. Thank you

Amazing tutorial, this helped me so much.

Thank you so much it helped me out a lot with cleaning my band trumpet

Very helpful! Thanks for the brevity as well.

Thank you. I never thought about laying a towel in the tub before!

Best tutorial I’ve found here since every other guide had errors at some parts

Thanks you helped me out a lot.

I love you man drew stay up my boy keep up in that sound that's real and be over now

How to freak out a starter player! Number 1: after he/she cleans it tell them to put the valve numbers the wrong way Number 2: laugh when they flip out saying they can’t blow the trumpet

thanks this is very helpful

Thanks for this. Made my first clean today and It is great. :)

I congratulate you on making a really concise but very detailed video on how to clean a trumpet. You really fit a lot of info into just a short amount of time. By the way, about 1 year ago, Katelyn Mckellips mentioned here (in your comments section) that it would *not* be a good idea to clean out the valve casings with a brush - especially on more expensive trumpets - (because it might scratch the casings, ect.). She said that using a moist paper towel to clean out the valve casings is a better alternative. (Probably by pushing the bunched-up, moist paper towel through each one of the valve casings with something like a wooden dowel.) Her thoughts with regards to this sounded like good advice to me. I've recently ordered a new, inexpensive trumpet (online), and I'm planning to wash it with water before I oil and grease it and re-assemble it. However, I am really "paranoid" about submerging the new, inexpensive trumpet in water. Do you think that doing that might possibly do some damage to the cheap, gold-colored finish on the instrument? (Frankly, just the thought [generally speaking] of putting a trumpet completely under water makes me kind of uneasy.) I would appreciate it if you would be able to reply to me. Thank you very much.

Thank you for the video I have a trumpet and it is almost 10 or more years old What if the vaules get stuck

Wie pan co ja w sprawie tych zapieczonych klawiszy, napsikałem do środka, środku penetrującego i nadal to nie pomogło, moczyłem je również w coli ale nadal nic zna pan może jakieś inne sposoby na załatwienie tego problemu?,dodam też że brat wcześniej smarował te klawisze olejem jadalnym i to chyba przez to się zapiekły

This I such a well made vid thanks for the guide

Thanks for the great video!

Is it OK if I don't disassemble some parts of the main body? 2 of my tuning slides are stuck, and I hope the water with get rid of the blocking, or what ever the reason it's not coming out.

THIS HELPS SO MUCH

Do i have to oil my slides?? I never use them and i just dont like oiling them even though i have slide grease.

Hey thanks For making this video, this is really useful

short and to the point. great video!

its a nice video up there , but may I ask u something , may I perform this cleaning process by using sodium bicarbonate/ baking soda ? Do you recommend it ? Thank u in advance..

It is not necessary to take the springs out. A little water will not hurt the instrument but it is a good idea to use compressed air to get the moisture out of the piston cavity. If compressed air is not available, positions valve pistons vertically to allow gravity to pull more moisture out.

Me: *has butterfingers* Him: "Make sure not to break your trumpet" My trumpet: *Breaks in the middle of performance*

also remember to remove all the bubble that are inside while putting them in the tub

Does the order of the springs matter, is it ok if they are in different valves

THANK U VERY MUCH FOR UR VIDEO . FINALLY I KNOW HOW TO CLEAN MY TRUMPET .

Very helpful thank you

How did you make that starting animation of the trumpet disassembling? Great video by the way

Hi, can you put Sterisol solution through a trumpet, and not just the mouthpiece?

how about the pads inside the valve cap? what do u do with those?

Does it work just as well with a gold tarnished trumpet or will it come out?

what about trumpets with a gold plating, not silver? is it okay, or will the plating come off?

where'd you get the silver trumpet i want one

Thank you for so much. 9 yeaars later still so helpful. I cleaned mine for the first time but unfortunately the thing that is underneath the felt was not removing for my 1st and second valves, it was also very dry. idk what happened, but at least I was able to clean my third valve! :D

My trumpet is brand-new. So it looks super shiney. After this guy washed his trumpet it still looks like it has lots of marks of gunk and etc. Not that shiney out of the box look. How do we get that look from the intrument?

can someone tell me how to put my key inside a valve, it keeps on getting stuck halfway through the valve and wont go in no matter what I try

Start with disassembling your trumpet.... Would be nice if you showed us that part.

very helpful

This is awesome

Does the trumpet have to be fully submerged in the water? I’ve been told to let like half the Bell stick out. Answers..?

Thanks for the help :)

Thanks Man 👍🇮🇪

Dude I’ve watched this video at least 5 times and done this 5 times in the past 5 years

how about ultrasonic cleaner i have one a small one will it damage the valves and tubings the trumpet body is too big for the ultrasonic cleaner i use dish soap and water in the ultrcleaner for the rest the bodey normal like the video

I wish videos were made like this these days

What if my slides are stuck? Can I still bathe the trumpet?

thx for the info

With my trumpet (Getzen Eterna Proteus) I can’t remove the springs. Is it still ok to clean the valves as you suggested?

Can I leave it longer then 20 min?

Very good.

How often should a person clean their trumpet? (Assuming they use it almost every day)

Can you oil the inside of the slide

Can you wash a trumpet with a stuck slide???? I need answers

After doing this, my first valve gets stuck. Why? It didn’t before. Thanks.

How do you remove a stuck 2nd valve slide at home?

Thank you

my main tuning slide is stuck, is there any way i can take it off without grease??

One of my valve guides went down the drain, so I would suggest taking those out with the springs.

thank you

Thanks!

Does enybody know if trombone slide cream works for trumpet was well?

I noticed that you rinsed the valve itself with water. Am I correct to assume that the springs weren't inside when you did this?

What about the pads on the outside that the valves hit when they go down?

Are the brushes nessacary?

two of my valve caps wont move and my D tuning slide wont come out 🙃🙃🙃🙃

does it matter if the cork on the spit valve gets wet?

Hey, cool video. I watched and followed it and my trumpet is all clean now! I have one question: Do you need to grease the mouthpiece?

Thanks

I get the whole process but does this also works with Piccolo trumpets?

Can you help please? I live in the UK (Usually there is no sun, just rain.) Can I just leave it in the dark to air dry or do I have to leave it in the sun? I was thinking of using a hairdryer and put it on low heat to dry it. Would that work?

3 of my slides are stuck... is that ok?

What is that oil called

I finally did it :)

I can't remove the spring from the valve can I leave it and clan it like that still?

What is that orange grease you used towards the end of the video?

What happens if I can't get the spring out because the part I need to turn is stuck?

it’s 3am. i’ve never even held a trumpet before. why am i here

Just got an old trumpet with lots and lots of gunky stuff in the pipe walls, I'm cleaning it right now, it even sounded a bit odd.

where is your saddle for your left thumb???

Mine has not been cleaned in at least 10 years. It was leant to me by a relative. I'm nervous to see what I find....

I don’t trust myself to correctly disassemble piston valves. So I’m going to clean them separately in the sink so that the felt pads don’t shrink 😂

How often should I clean out my trumpet like this?