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Post-Practice Flute Cleaning

by tyonceBlog August 18, 2025August 18, 2025No Comments

Should You Use a Cleaning Rod, Flute Wand and/or Pad Saver? What Every Flutist Needs to Know Post-practice flute cleaning: Keeping your flute clean and dry is essential to maintaining its tone, pad condition, and overall performance. Three popular tools often recommended for this are the cleaning rod, flute wand and the pad saver, but …

Basic flute maintenance

by tyonceBlog May 25, 2011November 15, 2022No Comments

Basic flute maintenance (from the flutist’s perspective) Having taught flute for fourteen years now, I’ve taught a lot of folks. I’ve decided to compile a basic maintenance checklist for flute students. I’ve found that, usually, each student has a few habits that could cause damage to their instrument. Any damage is going to adversely affect …