[TPIN] quick lick

[Allegro69]

>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:01:39 +0000
>From: Achias1 at mchsi.com
>Subject: Re: [TPIN] quick lick
>To: "William Graham" <weg9 at comcast.net>
>Cc: TPIN <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
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>The story that I heard was that saliva was a common valve lubricant in the
early years, which might explain
>why many early cornets have such leaky valves - the acid in the saliva ate
away at the valves and casings.

>Hmmm

>Dave

Come what may, we deliver saliva into our horns every moment we play. I'm
not sure that a quick lick on a valve is going to make any difference.
Proper and constant cleaning will help avert that situation. Perhaps leaks
discovered on early horns are because they were not cleaned prior to putting
them in 'mothballs'. That, coupled with many years of time will cause more
problems than what we do on a daily basis.