Tech/maintenance Sterisol inside the horn?

[wooster]

Greetings chums,

I have a slightly specific (?) question about cleaning the sax.

I give both body and mouthpiece a dry with a pull-through and cloth after most sessions of playing. Every week or two I use sterisol to spray the mouthpiece and reeds I've used, leave it a minute or two then rinse off and dry.

Recently I've contemplated spraying some sterisol on the pull-through to clean the inside of the sax but as I wouldn't be able to rinse it off as I do with mouthpieces I wonder if this is a really bad idea re the corks, or indeed if I used sparingly a really pointless idea. Also I wonder if cleaning the neck with sterisol sprayed on the cloth in this way might be good. Maybe I should just do what I currently do and be happy.

I have seen pieces of advice online ( and an older thread on here ) that suggest IPA might be useful to spray. I wondered if any consensus had been reached about this.

 

[Dr G]

I thought chemtrails were a West Coast thing !

Pretty popular in the southwest as well.

 

[PiccoloPirate]

Dances with Bacon.

 

[Targa]

I thought chemtrails were a West Coast thing !

I thought perhaps that photo had been taken in Scotland.

 

[Targa]

Sorry if this post offended anyone. A fellow member (in UK) sent me a DM explaining this could be viewed in a negative way.
My context was more in regards to what is a story or the truth. I love stories, but the truth however unpleasant should not be sugar coated.
Stepping out for a pint and banger. Maybe a few pork pies too.

Too many people want to be offended too easily.
Don't know what they would have made to my response about Halloween when asked if sweets should be lowered from the window with a dummy severed head in the basket I asked couldn't we use a real one from last year's carol singers.

 

[mizmar]

Too many people want to be offended too easily.

It was me. I wasn't offended but wanted to check if I had cause annoyance (wouldn't be the first time. We can all go too far).
Too many people jump to conclusions too easily 😉
No harm, no foul.

 

[Ivan]

My family crest expresses my thoughts on this.


I call on @saxismyaxe for historical correctness on this subject. A piper and avid historian on bagpipes.

Interesting

Clan MacLellan? (Looked that one up)

If you don't know already it through your Scottish family and friends' connections, 'Think On (Laddie),' is still a strong and contemporarily spoken Scottish phrase

For English speakers outwith Scotland, the phrase is a warning of dire consequences should you do the wrong thing... how dire depends of the level of gravitas achieved by the speaker... any humourless teacher with knitted brow admonishing an errant pupil can make that phrase work its black magic...

Holding aloft a speared head with your sword arm might be regarded as the ultimate level of gravitas

 

[Colin the Bear]

Two coos in a field. Which one is on holiday? The one wi the wee calf. 😊

 

[PigSquealer]

@wooster here’s an interesting article on the subject in question.
Published by the National Association of Band Instrument Repair Technicians.

https://napbirt.org/page/InstrumentCleanliness