Danger ! Danger- Do Not Use………..

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Slide Creams are all alike…..Right?

No

About a month ago I noticed that my flugle horn’s tuning slide was working a little hard and because I had just lubricated my trombone slide with some Yamaha Slide Cream, I thought it wise to lubricate my flugle horn’s tuning slide before I put my equipment away.

Bad decision.

When I tuned with our organist for a church service this morning, I found that the tuning slide in my recently lubricated flugle horn could not be budged. No matter what I did, I could not move the slide.

When I got home, I had to take some extreme measures in order to even slightly move the slide. After working for about twenty minutes my wife and I were able to remove the tuning slide and I found that the brass to brass situation had formed a reaction which had to be worked on for another twenty minutes. If I had waited another week before trying to move the slide, I would not have been able to get it out.

So….. when using the Yamaha Slide Cream on the inside tube of a trombone slide, no problem but I would not advise anyone to use it when you have two brass contact points meeting; for the outcome is very, very bad.

Bruce was a member of the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa, School of Music in Cedar Falls from 1969 until his retirement in 1999. He has performed with many well-known entertainers such as Bob Hope, Jim Nabors, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Anita Bryant, Carman Cavalara, Victor Borgie, the Four Freshman, Blackstone the Magician, Bobby Vinton and John Davidson.

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2 thoughts on “Danger ! Danger- Do Not Use………..”

  1. KAREN Nelson

    WHO would EVER had thought…!!! Good ol’ vaseline is my go to! Whew! You were blessed to get it out and cleaned!

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