Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues

neal085

@ROWUK agreed, sir. The Texas shutdown was fairly minimal, and we found it mostly relaxing. Got to know all our neighbors a lot better, played a lot of backyard baseball, and I found time to do some writing I'd been putting off for years. I actually worked through the whole thing, and it was really peaceful to have the roads to myself on the morning drive.

Discovered that professional sports don't really add that much value to my life, (I do miss baseball a bit), discovered that you save a lot of money by never eating out, and it was a lot easier to get together with many of our friends, because we didn't have a lot of the time constraints we'd normally have.

Schooling the kids from home was actually enjoyable for us, and we're seriously considering whether to even send them back to public school. Having them home all the time gets me and my wife more directly involved in their education, and the kids are a lot more involved in the daily chores and projects than they would normally be. All of that is of tremendous value to the family unit.

Dr GO

Mike Wade, Cincinnati trumpet player has a cool idea for masking during a trumpet performance:

Dr GO

More proof of brass safety. Even a trombone does not have enough bell discharge to "bolero" out a candle...

Youtube Video

administrator

I'm not a metallurgist, but I remember learning somewhere in my music school studies that brass does have certain anti-microbial properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touch_surfaces#:~:text=The surfaces of copper and,a high degree of efficiency.

Dr GO

@administrator said in Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues:

I'm not a metallurgist, but I remember learning somewhere in my music school studies that brass does have certain anti-microbial properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touch_surfaces#:~:text=The surfaces of copper and,a high degree of efficiency.

Brass does, but not to bacteria that form spores or viruses. Isopropyl alcohol at 91% has been proven (in the medical literature) to eliminate these additional pathogens and recommend to re-use every 1-3 months to maintain control of these pathogens.

administrator

I have never poured isopropyl alcohol down my instruments. I bet they'd stink for weeks!

Dr GO

@administrator said in Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues:

I have never poured isopropyl alcohol down my instruments. I bet they'd stink for weeks!

No odor. Isopropyl alcohol is highly volatile and the odor is gone under a minute. I use a glass container (with a cap) to soak slides and valves for about 15 minutes and then quick pour through the bell and leadpipe tubing and rotate the horn until it drains out the outer end in a collection bucket.

Dr GO