{"id":696,"date":"2022-11-14T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/?p=696"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:56:56","slug":"for-trumpet-players-how-to-clean-your-valves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/2022\/11\/14\/for-trumpet-players-how-to-clean-your-valves\/","title":{"rendered":"For TRUMPET players: How to clean your valves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have added lots of oil but some of your valves are still slow\/sticky, try cleaning them as shown in this video.<\/p>\n<p>Notes: <strong>Only out and clean one valve at a time<\/strong> (not all 3 at once like this person does) in order to avoid accidentally mixing up which valve goes in which spot when putting them back in again.<\/p>\n<p>You can use a chopstick and a cut-up piece of an old T-shirt instead of the flute rod and cheesecloth. Just make sure that the stick is fully wrapped so that you can&#8217;t accidentally scratch the metal inside the trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>When adding oil again before putting the valve back in, use 5 or 6 drops and twist the valve back and forth a few times\u00a0 to spread the oil around evenly inside the casing before lining it up straight and screwing it back in place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ad1t26cQKAQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have added lots of oil but some of your valves are still slow\/sticky, try cleaning them as shown in this video. Notes: Only out and clean one valve at a time (not all 3 at once like this person does) in order to avoid accidentally mixing up which valve goes in which spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martinj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}