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04-01-2020, 06:10 PM
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How To Disinfect an Instrument
Sent to me from the Larrivee mailing list:
How to Disinfect Musical Instruments During Covid-19 Good info to know, although I'm not letting my guitar go out of the house, no matter how much it whinges... 
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#3
04-02-2020, 07:38 AM
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Torrefy it.
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04-02-2020, 07:49 AM
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#5
04-02-2020, 07:51 AM
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04-02-2020, 08:06 AM
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Emerald X20 Emerald X20-12 Fender Robert Cray Stratocaster Martin D18 Ambertone Martin 000-15sm
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#8
04-02-2020, 10:50 PM
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I didn’t feel like the question of how to disinfect a guitar was actually answered...it was more of what not to do.
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#9
04-02-2020, 11:39 PM
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It’s not a joke anymore if you buy a guitar and have it shipped the strings would be of concern as well As the fret board and finish. Then you have the outside box and packing tr sling from point to point and being handled by many. Then you need to speak to the delivery driver and sign his pad! As one who got infected at Wintergrass, It’s no joke! A guitar neck that has been handled by a Sick person can infect you and the virus can live on a surface for a long time, and you wouldn’t know it fo 14 days!!
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#10
04-03-2020, 07:28 AM
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Shockfinder, I think the replies above about about Naptha (lighter fluid in California) answered the question. I wouldnt put alcohol or peroxide or soap and water on it. I think a petroleum product is the answer.
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#11
04-03-2020, 07:34 AM
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I can't recommend an actual disinfectant, but if you're using anything involving lighter fluid or even alcohol on your guitar's finish, I would immediately follow that up with a good automotive detail spray and wax, otherwise you'll risk the finish drying out/cracking.
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#12
04-03-2020, 10:56 AM
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If I go out into the world, when I come back I take care to disinfect me well. The clothes come off at the door. I wash well. Otherwise great care is taken with anything that come into the "clean zone." If I received a guitar, I would not attempt to disinfect it directly, but would unbox it outside, then wipe down the case with alcohol-based cleaner, then put the guitar case in the back room, open it to the air, and let nature take it's course. Let it sit for a week and play something else while any virus on it dies. Yes, I understand the desire to play with the new toy, but these are not normal times. Easy enough to temper that impulse when the alternative is possible death, or in killing someone whom you love. OMMV
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#13
04-03-2020, 11:29 AM
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I agree 100%! Nothing to make light of. A doctor we talked to when there said if she ever saw the perfect place for a virus to circulate that was it, all those people in close quarters and small rooms etc. Glad to hear you made it home without issue, the person I traveled with got very ill as well.....
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04-03-2020, 11:47 AM
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#15
04-03-2020, 03:02 PM
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So, as the OP, it seems that there's not much consensus that this article is giving good advice? Fortunately it really isn't an issue for me, but reading the above posts, it clearly is an issue, one specific to us wood instrument players.
Imagine if we played wind instruments.
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