| Re: New piccolo trumpet
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Originally Posted by Vulgano Brother  One oiling trick is to put some in the bottom cap, filling up the little "oil pan"--screwing the cap on forces the oil into the valve. | Does that get it into the valve rotor or just the bearing?
On normal rotary trumpets I put bearing oil on the end of the rotor under the cap and pull the slide to create a vacuum to draw the oil in and then put the rotor oil in through the slides starting with the key half depressed.
I am getting oil into the second valve on the oiccolo through the first valve slide.
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