how's it going everybody so today we're going to talk about how to clean the flute today we're going to talk about cleaning the flute how you clean it the exterior of it when you get little brown spots or you a little bit of tarnish or if you you know it's generally a little bit dirty now there's two ways of cleaning there's the regular tarnish cloths which look a little bit like this they usually have these little brown little markings on it because it's removes tarnish and then there's the polishing which is this microfiber type of cloth that you can get you might get have both of these inside your case you might not you might have one or the other or we're going to go through both of the ways to use them so we'll start with the tarnishing cloth in Irish cloth you want to start on the tarnishing say if you want to find out which one's the tarnishing side just rub a little spot where you see some some gunk and see if it rubs off it does that's the tarnishing side of the cloth so you want to take your head joint and clean a little bit at a time in a circular motion nice around try not to get the the core and try not to get the crown here cleaning the inside a little bit with your finger the little mouth hole you want to just go in little motions like that and usually that gets it nice and shiny again pretty much a nice and shiny again and get to a certain level you don't have to do it too much just a little bit here and there don't overdo it at all as you can see look at that extra tarnish that just fell out of it off of it now with keys it's a little bit more tricky what you want to do with keys especially is not to go rubbing side-to-side like this at all if you're going to rub the keys at all you want to rub back and away so this way then that way not this way or this way because you don't want the small mechanisms to scrape back and forth and then cause a lot of play and then make your flute go into repairs a lot faster so you want to do that just back and forth and back and forth and back and forth don't press it down too hard on the keys just very gently just as you would if you were playing on the flute just a little bit and clean like that Seema here around the G key G sharp key same thing just slightly press on it try not to clean too much over the over the nor the ribs and all the piping here just lightly go over it that doesn't eat that much at all just lightly go over that and then the other side of the keys now the tubing same thing as before on the head joint just rub nice and on it over and over get all that black gunk off of there and yeah that's how you use the tarnish cloth pretty much and just go over it with that on the tarnish clock then you take the cars showeth away and you're done with that now with the polishing cloth it's quite it's usually the more daily type of cloth that you should use that generally just gives it a nice little shine again nice little clean doesn't necessarily take off any tarnish but what it does is just it just cleans off all that gunk that's on the flute and it's very very useful little item to have feels good too when you're we have it in your hands and cleaning it like that and it gives a nice little shine keeps it all a nice nice good working order no debris around the pads stuff like that same motion again always going this way and not that way when you're when you're cleaning the keys so I hope that was helpful that was helpful let me know down in the comments be sure to LIKE the video if you liked the video and let us know down in the comments what other video we can do about maintenance for the flute until next time guys thanks for watching