How about a demonstration? Assuming you meant a physical method (ie, scraping the grime away or even sucking the stale, leftover spit out), I'm not sure that any race's tongue is long enough nor the teeth positioned correctly enough to get to all the places that would need cleaning.

A spell for cleaning would rock and if sung instead of played you wouldn't have to worry about using an instrument and being unable to.

Envisioning the Removal of Accretions [ERA]
Ballads and Romances

Singing this enchante literally causes dirt, grime, and spit to magically lift off/leak out of your precious musical instrument, restoring it to a level of cleanliness it probably hasn't seen since it was made.

J'Lo, no that other one
The Manipulation List -- http://symphaena.com/index.html

>>but is carrying around a cloth and getting 4-7 seconds RT when you clean an instrument before use really all that bad?

The point of my suggestion was, with great enough skill, a Bard should be able to clean an instrument without the use of his/her hands. That is all I am suggesting.


~The one who is obsessed with power.
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<<Rather Dart spend time working on screams or new bluffs or another enchante then coding a skill check that would allow us to clean instruments with our various appendages, both obscene and otherwise.>>

But I've always wanted to be able to blow the dust away with my awesome nose!

.....J/K

really, lets get these screams out, I yearn to yell at things and make it mean something


The Bardic blunder
Wyndsol