Gave my zills a nice cleaning for tonight's performance. For those who haven't tried polishing their brass zills, it's so fast, cheap, and easy. Are you ready to write all this down?
1) Mix lemon juice with either salt or baking soda to make a paste.
2) Start scrubbing.
What could be easier?
Actually, to make it even easier, I leave the next zill to be cleaned submerged in a little dish of lemon juice. That can take off the worst of the tarnish without even needing to do anything.
On some online advice, I rubbed a very light layer of olive oil onto the brass when I was done, as a preventive layer from further tarnishing. I'll let you know if it helps (I had to wipe so much off to make sure that it would not leave an oil stain on my costumes that I'm not sure if it will).
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