Has anyone heard of or used “Hagerty Silver Polish?” Does it work well? Is it really okay to use on my flute? (My flute is silver-plated but, unfortunately, the plating is wearing off.) Here’s the link for the polish: http://www.music123.com/Hagerty-Silver-Polish-i104458.music?match=1
If anyone can tell me anything please do 
I don’t think it would be good on wood.
ummm…wood? I play flute..it’s metal.
welcome ~ most of us play flutes…they’re often wood.
Mary
Oh, boy! I know something about this! Yaaay!
Hagerty’s is a FINE product. Jeeves himself would use it. It is a relatively nonabrasive silver polish, good for things like trays and silverware, and actually does seem to delay tarnishing. I used it for years on sterling Army uniform bits, to good effect.
However, I’m not so sure you need to pay $10 for it. Or the shipping. Fine department stores and china shops often have it, as do many grocery stores. I’d bet that Home Depot has it. Try there first.
I’m also not sure I’d use it on anything which was losing its plating (it’s going to remove more of it, not restore it), and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t enjoy using it on a flute. Looks like flutes have a lot of intricate parts to them–from what I’ve seen with my nose pressed to music shop windows–and getting around all those parts would be messy. The thing to Hagerty’s liquid is that you kind of have to wash it off, or wipe endlessly, or the residue turns your hands and anything else it touches black.
Hagerty does make Silversmiths’ Wipes, containing the infamous R-22 tarnish preventive, which might work better on your flute as they could be worked in and out of the flute bits without mess and would not require rinsing. They’re like dry baby-wipes.
Toothpaste is also a good tarnish remover. Nuns who clean altar furnishings recommend it, as does my brother the silversmith. Messy, though.
Disclaimer: Author has flutes and can’t play them. Advice offered solely in the spirit of charity and with recognition that it’s likely useless.
As one who has never picked up an instrument before my Feadog D, what is the “proper care procedure” for a pennywhistle? I’ve never been able to find any information about this. Short of shoving a paper towel up the thing or covering the mouthpiece and blowing, I’ve yet to find a way to get that “mysterious fluid” out, and after two or three songs it usually makes m’whistle start squeaking.
Hello: Although there are a lot of folks here that play the whistle, this is primarily the flute board. You will get some answers here, but I’ll bet if you post this on the Whistle Forum, you will get lots and lots of suggestions. Just a thought.
All the Best, Tom
Oops! Sorry. I missed the whistle forum and thought the two went together here.