Flute Cleaning Care Cleaning Kit: Key Oil + Cork Grease + Swab + Cleaning Cloth + Cleaning Brush + Cleaning Rod - Maintenance Kit

I am happy with this purchase. It is a complete kit and was priced at a good value. Would buy again.

Maybe this kit is a little over the top for a C flute but I definitely get my flute cleaned in a jiffy with this cleaning kit. I’m able to transition from flute practice to choir in 5-8 minutes. Gloves are wonderful addition to cleaning regimen.

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This a a very nice flute cleaning kit. I purchased it for my Irish whistles. And for anyone else thinking along the same lines, the 2 fluffy ID cleaners will not fit into a 'D' whistle. The slotted stick with the fabric patch will do the job though.

I’m a professional flutist and college instructor, so I thought this nicely packaged flute care kit would be helpful to have on hand for emergency use by my students, seeing as how they sometimes lose cleaning rags or their cleaning rods. This kit has some nice things in it for those purposes. However, a student flutist doesn’t need everything that’s in this kit. For example, the cork grease should only be used on the cork tenon of a piccolo, never on the metal joints or tenons of a flute. It is decent cork grease for cork. On a metal flute, it could worsen joints sticking together. The white gloves are unnecessary. They supposedly reduce fingerprints, but because they are a thin stretchy nylon or polyester, a young student might actually be more likely to drop the flute wearing them, and, of course, no one can play the flute with gloves on, unless you cut off the fingers, because gloves are too slippery. The plastic cleaning rod, made to look like maple or bamboo, is a good cleaning rod, and has the 17 mm line marking on its far end to check the position of the head joint cork. But usually every new or even used flute comes with a cleaning rod. This one might be extra for a beginner with a new flute. You can buy a good cleaning rod individually for around $8-$10. The two “fluffy” rods, one shorter than the other, can quickly clean out a flute, but you shouldn’t store them inside the flute or inside your hard case, because the moisture will degrade/rust certain parts of the flute. Usually beginners who can’t handle a regular cleaning rod and cloth are the students using them. The gauze-like cleaning cloth is useful, but do gently wash it first, and don’t use fabric softener on any flute cloth. Having an outer, soft case cover with a zippered pocket for the student’s flute case itself is more useful than key oil or multiple fluffy cleaning rods. The student can store pencils, cleaning rod, cleaning cloths and lip balm in the zippered outer pocket of the case cover. Some student flute cases have this extra zip pocket built in, which is nice. By far the majority of USA flutists, beginner to intermediate and up to 99% of professionals, use the plastic or wood cleaning rod with a cloth to clean their flute, and keep the cloth in an outer case cover or tied to the handle of a student’s hard case.The end-weighted “pull-through” cloth is too thick, but sort of ok, and I’d wash it before using; it seems like it has a fairly strong chemical odor. Usually good “pull-through” cloths are silk, and flutists don’t use them much because they don’t work in the head joint. The very small item is a “pad dryer,” which if you get condensation blocking a key opening, while you’re playing, you can close the key onto the pad dryer, and it will act like a thin sponge and soak up the excess moisture. That’s ok if you know how to use it without roughing up the pad surface. The key oil, which seems nice with its provided needle point, should only be used by experienced teachers and repair persons. The oil can gum up the joints, make the flute slippery, ruin pads, and be easily overused, if the user doesn’t know what they’re doing with it. In summary, the items included in this kit are not all necessary for a school-aged flute student to own, especially an beginner, although a teacher might find some of it handy to have on hand. In my opinion, if you want to spend a little extra on your child, I would recommend an outer case cover as more useful for a student who already has the plastic cleaning rod and a nice thin, non-linty but absorbent cotton or silk cleaning cloth and/or maybe one fluffy rod for young beginners. The gloves, cork grease, multiple fluffy cleaning rods, pull-through cloth and the key oil are perhaps useful for teachers to have on hand, but are not needed by all flute students. (Piccolo players playing wood or resin instruments with a cork tenon usually should have cork grease, however. Usually students don’t attempt to start on piccolo until the intermediate or early advanced stages, because it’s much more difficult to play than flute.). And most important, buy a good flute from a major brand. The better the flute, the more a student will enjoy it and continue playing.

We like this complete cleaning kit. We do wish there was a little more instruction in the package regarding how to use the oil.

My middle school granddaughter needed this for her band instrument and it works great!

I love that all the essentials to clean my flute are included in this kit.