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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

trpthrld wrote:
All of this has been posted previously.

A jar of Spit Balls...$10 give or take. Trumpet size you get 18 in a jar. Trombone size you get 15. Trombone is a couple of bucks more.

Blow Dry...$25 give or take and you get ONE.


FWIW there's ten or so replacement BITs in the tube when you get a blow dry brass package. You do have to replace the alcohol semi-regularly, but there's a few in there.

Spit Balls are definitely a lot cheaper though not disagreeing there
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bagmangood wrote:
FWIW there's ten or so replacement BITs in the tube when you get a blow dry brass package. You do have to replace the alcohol semi-regularly, but there's a few in there.

Fairly sure there was only one in the pgk when they were first introduced. If that's so it's good to see they've made adjustments.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spitballs and Blowdry Brass have a different purpose though. Spitballs are used to clean a horn. Blowdry Brass is meant to dry a horn. They’re made of a different kind of foam that’s more absorbant than Spitballs. Both are a foam bit blown through a horn but after that it’s mostly comparing apples to oranges.

trpthrld wrote:
Blow Dry...$25 give or take and you get ONE.

That’s quite incorrect as others have stated. The bits also last fairly long (much longer than the instructions suggest); a single BdB kit can easily last you multiple years even with daily use. All you have to do is occasionally replenish the alcohol. With either product, if it saves you even a single professional cleaning, then they will have paid for themselves. Both products last long enough the make the price difference trivial.

trpthrld wrote:
Spit Balls can be used wet (either in the solution in the jar or water), or dry.

As I understood it, isn’t the liquid what cleans the horn? If so, a dry spitball kinda defeats the purpose of using it. It’d be more like using a less effective BlowdryBrass bit.

trpthrld wrote:
Here's the part I really like - when you blow something thru your horn (air / spit ball / whatever), your breath has MOISTURE in it. Therefore, whatever a spit ball or blow dry might push in front of it, there will be breath moisture behind it that stays in your horn until it dries up.

It’s almost ridiculous how much moisture is left in a trumpet after playing. Even after completely emptying the spit valves, the bit still contains quite a lot of leftover moisture. The tiny bit of moisture from blowing a bit through the horn is far, far less than that (and as etc-etc explained, the alcohol helps to remove that too).
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