@Kehaulani said in Clean with 'alcohol'?:

I use Everclear. 95% Alcohol. I drink a big swig then play my horn. Kills everything in it.

Including brain cells.

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

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.

Are they literally beating guns into trumpets, or selling the guns and using the money to purchase instruments?

I heard a story of a crocodile that lived in the Berlin Zoo during the Nazi Germany era. After the end of the war, somehow the Soviets ended up with the animal, which only recently died. It was considered the last "German POW."

The crocodile's name? Saturn. True story.

@grune said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@Newell-Post ... to your points... so true. Compared to prices of many violins, trumpets are 'disposables'. Even 'student' level violins can be +$100k. crazy.

https://tarisio.com/auctions/notable-sales/lady-blunt-stradivarius-of-1721/

Can't Monettes cost $30k+? I mean, that's not $100k, granted, but it is, at the end of the day, a brass pipe.

Anybody opposed if we just close the thread down?

What did I miss?

Trumpet-a-holic?

There's a reason his name is Nono.