Pluma cras -- or how to clean a windway

Whistle
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Ever get a speck of dust in a narrow (Overton) or fragile (wooden) windway?
Pipe cleaners are usually too thick, paper or blotter strips may leave lint..

Here’s a 100% safe, efficient and ecologically recyclable trick learnt from a French luthier.

Use a small feather, preferably goose.
Push its tip in holding it by the stem.
The small tooth-like things will collect and push the dust through, while gently sweeping the windway from lint, goo, smokers bits of lungs and all you’ve seen inside at least once…

(Morale :
Whistle my geese
Tartar
Gently sweeps)

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Yeeeeah! Finally found a use for the numerous Canada Geese which are multiplying in this area…
Zub, just so you know, here we have to say “Freedom” luthier… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Just off to round up a Muscovy drake then…then I just need the Overton to go with it. Whistle version of a feather duster - neat, although I sure hope I haven’t any spider’s webs in there…

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  1. We got a similar bird (Bernache in Québecois and Freedom parlay) migrating through the marshes just down the trail from here. I never thought of collecting their feathers–thanks for the tip.
  2. I don’t mind the term! But I stay here…