Accessories Pull through

[Royston]

OK here goes.
Maybe another can of worms, I don't know!
Being new to this amazing instrument I was led to believe from my tutor and numerous "How to take care of your instrument (sax that is), videos that you pull the cloth through from the bell towards the neck.
Now here goes. Whilst attending the Manchester Meet a number of saxophonists did it in reverse. There names have been withheld to preserve there anonymity. Since again listing/watching videos I have to agree with the method I was taught. The reason is quite logical really. Why would you want to drag all that spit/breakfast, etc normally most likely to be nearer the neck, through your beautiful sax. I eat wholemeal seeded bread and came across some seeds whilst cleaning my mouthpiece.
Answers on a plain postcard please.
Regards
Roy

 

[BUMNOTE]

Neck to bell group me.Bumnote.

 

[Jay]

OK here goes.
Maybe another can of worms, I don't know!
Being new to this amazing instrument I was led to believe from my tutor and numerous "How to take care of your instrument (sax that is), videos that you pull the cloth through from the bell towards the neck.
Now here goes. Whilst attending the Manchester Meet a number of saxophonists did it in reverse. There names have been withheld to preserve there anonymity. Since again listing/watching videos I have to agree with the method I was taught. The reason is quite logical really. Why would you want to drag all that spit/breakfast, etc normally most likely to be nearer the neck, through your beautiful sax. I eat wholemeal seeded bread and came across some seeds whilst cleaning my mouthpiece.
Answers on a plain postcard please.
Regards
Roy

Gravity's taken it all down to the bell anyway. I do mine neck to bell too.

 

[ProfJames]

I use a pull through! Well worth it................

 

[Royston]

I use a pull through! Well worth it................

But which way prof??

 

[ProfJames]

It is the only cleaning "bit of kit" that I use........do you really want me to tell you what end to put it in???

 

[trimmy]

It was me.... Neck to bell

 

[ProfJames]

@trimmy ...... you have enough neck !!!!

 

[MandyH]

I'm a bell-to-neck girl!
But my logic is more mechanical - as the cone gets narrower, so the fabric of the pull through gets compressed and fits through the cone - it makes sense to me, anyway!

 

[Alc.]

Bread-seeds and breakfast in the mpc? Barbaric! Neanderthal! Wash hands and brush teeth before touching the horn. Be good to your baby.

And I prefer pad-savers; I think they come away with more moisture than a pull-through. I rinse them, squeeze them dry and hang out in the sun.

 

[ProfJames]

But which way prof??

I have been known to go both ways with a swab........

 

[TimboSax]

I noticed that as well Roy, but it didn't register until I read your post. I pull through from bell to neck (when I remember to, I have got a bit lax lately). I can only think I do it that way because I saw it done that way on t'internet, or was advised to do so by someone here. Never really thought why...

 

[Royston]

Anonymity shot!!

 

[Jeanette]

Bell to neck for me too

Jx

 

[Royston]

I noticed that as well Roy, but it didn't register until I read your post. I pull through from bell to neck (when I remember to, I have got a bit lax lately). I can only think I do it that way because I saw it done that way on t'internet, or was advised to do so by someone here. Never really thought why...

YEAH!!
At least I'm not on my own

 

[Jeanette]

Thinking about this if you do neck first where it is probably wetter it will come through more compressed and less likely to pick anything up from the bell.

Jx

 

[Royston]

We'll have to do a ballot Jeanette.

 

[TimboSax]

YEAH!!
At least I'm not on my own

Yep, you and me are a pair of bell-en....

...er, on second thoughts, um.

 

[ProfJames]

We'll have to do a ballot Jeanette.

Why involve the French?

 

[Royston]

I just read somewhere, and it sounded logical to me, that if you have any moisture or any other nasty bits lurking in your sax they are most likely to be nearer the neck. That being the case then using a pull through from the neck you are disbursing it through the the whole of the instrument.
This is just an observation and not to be taken too seriously. How you clean your sax is s personal choice.
Regards
Roy