Cleaning and polishing cloths are designed to safely clean lacquered surface, these efficiently remove dust, oily film and residue, without causing damage by abrasion, and leaves the instrument with a high shine.
Why Use Polishing Cloth?
Every new musical instrument goes through wear and tear over time, and that is why its important to clean them on a regular basis in order to maintain its new looks.
One of the easiest ways to do that is to cleaning your musical instrument with a Microfiber polish cloth.
These are ideal tools to use when polishing the outer surfaces of your musical instrument.
It removes dirt and grime from the surface, yet protects the lacquer and finish.
These work well with different musical instruments – keyboards, guitars, brass instruments, etc. Leaves your instrument looking brand new.
Some users even use these to clean their high end, classic cutlery to restore it back to it’s earlier glory, without having to buy cleaners. These are excellent for anyone looking to do a light or heavy polish of their valuables.
Top/Best Microfiber Polish Cloths
Here are some popular polishing & cleaning cloths for Musical Instruments.
Bach Silver Polish Cloth
Best cleaning cloths for Bach silver trumpets. This silver polishing cloth is best for cleaning silver instruments of tarnish and fingerprints.
Planet Waves Microfiber Polish Cloth
Can be used for cleaning any instrument. Helps to maintain an instruments new look.
Fender Premium Plush Microfiber Polishing Cloth
This Premium care cloth has millions of microfibers that makes it easy to remove and trap dirt, dust and grime. Safe for nitrocellulose lacquer finishes, Lint free.
Music Nomad Microfiber Suede Polishing Cloth
Music Nomad Microfiber Suede Polishing Cloth is great for polishing guitars and removing wax. 12-inch x 16-inch microfiber cloth. Use it for cleaning your string instrument after every time you play.Superior in picking up dust.
Cordoba Polishing Cloth
Cordoba Polishing Cloth is available in Ivory color and comes with brown embroidered edge and Cordoba logo. Measures 28×27 cm.
Vandoren Microfiber Swab for Clarinet
Vandoren’ s swab thoroughly cleans your instrument while protecting the delicate finish. Best swab for bass clarinet. Features cord with easy pull-through weight (makes it easy to feed the swab through the horn).
Leblanc 3292 Polish Cloth for Silver Plated instruments
The pink inner cloth does a great job of removing spots and tarnish, and the gray cloth restores the silver to a perfect shine without using silver polish.
These microfiber cleaning cloths are chemical-free, non-abrasive, super-absorbent, non-electrostatic, and lint-free for cleaning without worry of scratching. So order one right away if you want your musical instrument to look new forever.
What is a Microfiber Polish Cloth
A microfiber cleaning cloths is chemical-free, non-abrasive, super-absorbent, non-electrostatic, and lint-free cloth that you can use for cleaning your musical instrument, without worrying about scratching.
These cloths are much more effective cleaners compared to traditional cotton cloths with thicker fibers, which only push dirt, dust and grime around on the instrument surface without trapping it.
These make maintenance of musical instruments a breeze.
Why Use Polish Cloths
Microfiber polish cloths do a great job of removing spots, fingerprints and tarnishes on your music instrument, they also help restore the shine of your brass instruments (especially for polishing the nickel and chrome plating on the instrument).
Microfiber is a revolutionary material containing thousands of microfibers (per square inch) that makes it easy to remove dirt and grime from all surfaces. The soft, lint-free construction uses a non-hemmed edge to avoid scratching your prized musical instrument.
Microfiber polishing cloths can be used on all instruments. These cloths attract and traps dust, dirt, and oil and act like a magnet for stains and smudges. Usually, microfiber polish cloth requires little to no polish to thoroughly clean your music instrument.
These don’t leave a residue, and usually picks up all the little marks on the surface/brass with a few swipes (in most cases, scrubbing is not even required.)
Microfiber cloths actually work quite well for polishing most delicate surfaces. You may also use these to clean and shine metal, glass, crystal, jewelry and more.
How to Use a Microfiber Polish Cloth
Couple of things to keep in mind:
- Before using a Microfiber cloth, make sure you remove the tag (if any) from the cloth as it may scratch the surface.
- If you are going to use a cleaning polish, spray the polish on the microfiber cloth, instead of spraying it directly on the music instrument.
How to Clean Musical Instruments: Videos
Useful Cleaning/Repair Links
- Piano cleaners/polish kit
- Cleaning music gear: Care and maintenance tips
- Accessories for musical instruments
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