Summary of Contents for Zephyr Trumpet
- Page 1 Zephyr band instruments CARE & MAINTENANCE Trumpet zephyrbandinstruments.com Zephyr Band Instruments – 3100 Airway, Suite 119 – Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714.429.2391...
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Page 2: Care And Maintenance
ACCESSORIES Valve oil and slide grease are needed to play the trumpet. Its good to have a mouthpiece brush to clean the mouthpiece and cloth to clean the outside of the trumpet. If the trumpet is silver-plated you'll need a specially treated silver polishing cloth. - Page 3 OILING THE VALVES - do this about 2 times a week. Hold your trumpet exactly like would would when playing it but hold it at a 45 degree angle downward. Unscrew he top cap and lift the valve only half way out of the casing.
- Page 4 This is how you get "stuck slides". Your trumpet dries out and all that remains are the deposits. You will not be able to remove these deposits with any soap or water or any cleaning kit.
- Page 5 How to grease your slides! (Do this about once a month) There are two types of slides on your trumpet. We'll refer to them as the slow slides and fast slides. Slow slides are designed to move slowly and placed in one position like your main tuning slide.
- Page 6 Instead you put oil on it. Remember anything you want to move fast on a trumpet you put oil on it, anything you want to move slow or leave in a certain position, you put grease on it. So if you...
- Page 7 CLEANING CLOTH Wipe the outside of your trumpet after use with a cloth. If you have a silver trumpet use a silver polishing cloth. This process is very important especially with silver instruments. The acids in your hands can deteriorate finishes. Wiping the instrument after playing doesn't take much time and will always keep your trumpet looking new.
- Page 8 Remember your trumpet is made of metal but its soft brass, which bends and dents very easily. There is very close tolerance between the valves and the valve casing which the valves are inserted into and move inside of.
- Page 9 THE MOUTHPIECE Be sure to always put your mouthpiece in its proper spot in the case and never in with your trumpet. It will smash up your instrument if it bounces around in the case. Never try to remove your mouthpiece if it gets stuck. Take it to a repair shop that has a special tool for this purpose.
- Page 10 You may also get this polish into your valve casings and then you will be in trouble. If you really must shine up your silver trumpet, the best thing to do is buy a silver cleaning cloth. Silver cloths are inpregnanted with some mild polish called "rouge".
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