[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: "Trombone Lung"-NPR story

[billsharp]

> Subject: "Trombone Lung"-NPR story
>  This, from Bob Romans... and here I thought I had smoker's lung, yet 
> never smoked.
>

> According to this article, all brass players need to know about this!
> The Main message? Know any band directors?  pass this on to them.
>
> CLEAN YOUR HORN OFTEN!
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129725678
>
> Warm regards,
> Bob Romans,
>
> Every now and then I pour a cup of vinegar through the bell of my 
> trumpet, in the hopes of killing germs, bacteria, etc.  I used to use 
> products like Liisterine, but found that they have chemicals in them 
> that are "sticky" in nature.  So . . . what other chemicals are 
> useful?  ( and i know that someone out there is dying to lecture me on 
> the fact that  disassembling the entire instrument to clean it is the 
> proper thing to do).  So skip the pious lecture and tell me what you 
> do that is "quick and easy".

One thing I learned many years back is that vinegar has about the same 
pH  as the solutions they use at repair shops to clean the insides your 
instruments .. . .

....and so it goes,
Bill Sharp
>