Posted by The Fix on January 27, 2002 at 22:08:21:
In Reply to: Bad taste in tuba... posted by Dave on January 27, 2002 at 13:35:18:
Warm bath, and get a large tube of toothpaste. Make kind of a "toothpaste bath" and soak the horn in there for a while.
I did this with an old BBflat Conn that smelled like a dead rat, and it worked very well.
It also works great on mouthpieces.