This product has been on the market for many years and my first contact is worth sharing.
When first introduced to the brass playing world, the ease of cleaning my instrument with these objects was very appealing to my ears. So, I purchased a jar and ran one or two of these time saving gadgets through my horn. Presto, my instrument was cleaned. That was the good news. The bad news happened the first time I mentioned these instrument cleaning projectiles to a room full of high school band students. Shortly after our Faculty Brass Quintet returned to our campus, we received a very nasty message from the high school director who we had just days before visited. I’ll try to relate his concerns as he related it to us-
“What have you done? Two days after your quintet left our school, I was bombarded with at least two dozen Spitballs from my trumpet section on my first down beat for the day”!
Oops!
At least the trumpet section had clean horns that week.
Spitballs are a great way to keep your instrument clean once it has been completely cleaned. To use them simply remove one fron the jar, insurt it into your lead pipe (mouthpiece removed), with a pencil push it into the tube about two inches, depress all three valves and blow hard into your mouth piece reciever. The Spitballs are no substitute for a good bath for that would exceed its advertised intent. Clean your horn as usual and at least once a week run one of these foam objects in and out of your horn to keep it clean.
They work and I suggest you try them. But remember; never point your weapon at anything you don’t want to kill.
