How to Oil Your Horn, Featuring Ion Balu

Here are a few tips on how to properly oil your horn. Special thanks to my friend Ion Balu of Balu Musik for his professional insights on horn maintenance!

[@JG-rq5is]

Great content, thanks for posting this! Ion is great

[@rcbuggies57]

I like to put a little graze of oil on the threads of all my caps to make sure they don't seize, not even a drop but just some on your fingers and then rub it on, then tighten it with a "torque setting" of as tight as you can make it only putting one finger on the cap. Also, I like to put a drop in the lead pipe to have a nice thin layer protecting the brass from corrosion, but it should be done prior to cleaning the main slide so that you can get the oil off the slide and make sure it's nice and greasy rather than oily.

[@fengeffy5150]

very useful! i am gonna share this video with my students..they are always have questions about how to oil their horn

[@carlw]

Great video Ion and David 👍You should do ine for tuning since there seems to be various thoughts on the subject BTW, still loving my Briz 2000SC.

[@Brandonaguillon]

Thank you for these wonderful videos!

[@giperhorn]

Good to know this kinda tips! Appreciate it 😊

[@kshaitel123]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@artemi-music]

Great video, and wonderful close ups, really appreciate the camera man work! Really appreciate this. 🙏

[@MrScuarePants]

Very interesting content

[@seuradu8065]

Ionut tot respectul pentru ce faci in domeniul tau . Dar nu uita de Romania si promoveaza-o cat poti de mult. Nu uita asta. I love America ! Forever !

[@DankradMP]

such a good idea oild the side of the valves!!!!!!

[@Horattio101]

All good stuff thanks but what about pulling the mouth pipe through to keep it clean.? Something many players neglect to do so results in sluggish valves from all the detritus that gets blown further into the corpus.

[@stickom]

I watched this a couple of times, I made that common mistake dropping on rotor from the valve slide and horn become like under station, slow so I had to wash everything and start all over...

[@weird_guy388]

Does this all apply for rotary tuba

[@aschneider7583]

…I quite literally cannot find any Hetman rotor oil on Amazon

[@arthurbailey3796]

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[@rp1894]

personally i prefer to just drench myself in oil, like olive, and then it just gets to all the places on the horn it needs to go. Salad dressing works in a pinch.