[Trombone-l] Dark Stuff

[Daryl Burch]

This is why in high school we were offered spray bottles full of 
vodka....  ..to combat the _bacterial stuff. Ya that's it!

{My mom didn't believe me, either.}

Cheers!
-D-
www.radionoise.com <- Rock star by night
www.burchinteractive.com <- Tech-nerd by day #;-)


On Sep 29, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Stan Brager wrote:

OK, Dave, I'll take a closer look the next time I clean it. It may be 
dark
green slime. Regardless of color, is it part of the process of the brass
oxidizing?

Stan

----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. Buckley" <davebuckley at cogeco.ca>
To: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>; "Trombone-L"
<TROMBONE-L at server5.SAMFORD.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Dark Stuff


> Gee green slime comes out of mine when I clean it, not dark stuff. The
sound
> doesn't seem as good without the green slime either.
>
> How do you get dark stuff?
>
> dave Buckley.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>
> To: "Trombone-L" <TROMBONE-L at server5.SAMFORD.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:03 PM
> Subject: [Trombone-l] Dark Stuff
>
>
>> As I was cleaning my horn this morning, I pondered about the dark 
>> stuff
>> which came out of the end of the tubes. Since there's not much talk
about
>> it, the dark stuff is probably not damaging to the lungs. But what is 
>> it
>> exactly? Is it a fungus? or a colony of bacteria? is it the "dark
matter"
>> between the stars? or something else?
>>
>> Is there any scientific knowledge about the dark stuff?
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>> Stan
>> Stan "it hasn't killed me yet" Brager
>> Trombonist-in-Training
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