Was just looking for info on who swabs their sax and noticed alot of people saying the swab their or pull cloth through their MP after playing each time.
Just passing on something my clarinet teacher Lewis Gilmore said (he plays in the US Marine Band so he's pretty knowledgable haha) he said never swab your MP because over time it will change the interior enough to make a difference. We were talking Vandoren Clarinet MPs hard rubber ones so I stopped cleaning out my sax MP's also.
Maybe it's a clarinetists thing because Benny Goodman's MPs when there's a shot of the inside is usually white which happens to mine after a few months and gets progressively more and more covered with dried slime. One would think that (the caked slime) would change the MP but hey Lewis Gilmore thinks it's ok and Benny did not seem to mind nor care either...
Just passing on something my clarinet teacher Lewis Gilmore said (he plays in the US Marine Band so he's pretty knowledgable haha) he said never swab your MP because over time it will change the interior enough to make a difference. We were talking Vandoren Clarinet MPs hard rubber ones so I stopped cleaning out my sax MP's also.
Maybe it's a clarinetists thing because Benny Goodman's MPs when there's a shot of the inside is usually white which happens to mine after a few months and gets progressively more and more covered with dried slime. One would think that (the caked slime) would change the MP but hey Lewis Gilmore thinks it's ok and Benny did not seem to mind nor care either...