How To REALLY Clean Your Sax Mouthpiece! | Quick & Easy Guide

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Keeping your instrument clean is an absolute must as a saxophone player - and the mouthpiece should be considered the most important piece to keep clean!
In this video, Jeremy teaches you how to clean your mouthpiece and remove those stubborn, calcified stains. Even better, we'll only use 3 simple ingredients (dishwashing liquid, white vinegar and olive oil) that practically everyone will have in their pantry.
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[@lucyef19]

this might seem obvious and just me being an idiot but PLEASE do not use anything at all abrasive if the staining doesn’t seem to be lifting - I used a scourer thinking it was just getting the calcium off and now my whole mouthpiece is wrecked. It still works fine but visually (and emotionally lol my saxophone is basically my child) it’s ruined and a new mouthpiece would be over 100 quid down the drain :(

[@RAYRAYDAY]

Hey didn't know Seth McFarlan played sax, but that is no surprise considering his jazzy personality.

[@gravelis_6798]

Tried this with both my mouthpieces. Worked well for my Meyer 6M, but I used the second method with vinegar for my Selmer C-Star… by the time I remembered the thing was made of rubber it was too late. It would probably be a good idea to include a warning about using rubber mouthpieces with vinegar. Either way, I’ll be using the first method described in the video for cleaning my mouthpieces from now on.

[@Homeymoto]

Good to see you ! Im loving the beginners course. This video is good because im pretty much drooling into my mouthpiece 😅. Swab swab and use key leafs

[@magicman2379]

this truly helped me out so much! Especially after marching band season.

[@stebo5262]

this method worked very well for my meyer, wondering if this method also works for metal mouthpieces?

[@RebelScumJack]

Thanks for this useful information,

[@skateparker]

thank you so much for this !!

[@jacobsalazar8127]

hi can you you vegetable oil to polish the mouthpiece or do you have to use olive oil

[@jamb4741]

Where did you get that sax lamp!

[@saxmusicmail]

I've repaired, refaced, cleaned, polished, filled in teeth divots, banded cracked shanks on literally hundreds of woodwind mouthpieces over the past 30-35 years. I have also taught many others this art. I've had a lot of material published online. If a player finds the vinegar descaling offensive, try lemon juice. Olive oil is a popular remedy to shine up the dull finish, but let me recommend using a soft cloth (t-shirt material) and Mcguire's or other quality plastic polish to shine it up, and do it by hand only. This will also remove the green or brown oxidation of true hard rubber. DO NOT allow anyone to machine buff the mouthpiece. I have seen many facings ruined from that.

[@garethharding5647]

I tried this on my mouthpiece. It went green. Any advice would be great Cheer

[@nickybaker9335]

How often should you do this?

[@XavierJordanMusic]

Is that a Biilger?

[@yourfinality6208]

Will this still work for the calcium deposits to go away if the calcium deposits have stayed on the mouth piece for more than 2 weeks?

[@Uniquely_Fierce]

What to use if I have no white vinegar?

[@ThomasW280]

Is this safe for a metal mouthpiece?

[@qwerty.44]

What if it is a hard rubber mouthpiece

[@allanstoneman7911]

Yeh great. that didn't work.