Lesson Learned - 5/16/12

Today I left a flute in silver dip for well over an hour because I forgot about it and was working on something else while I was cleaning it. Silver dip is fairly harmless so it didn't do any permanent damage to the instrument, it just came out super shiny. It reminded me of a habit I've fallen out of, though, which is to always use a timer when soaking an instrument in any sort of solution. Had the flute been in a more potent cleaning bath, some damage could have been done to the plating for certain. We have a timer in the shop, but I've fallen out of the habit of using it. Henceforth I resolve to serve the almighty timer once again!