Great question! To find out, we took 2 identical brand new saxophones and played them each for 12 months, 200 hours of playing on each sax, never swab cleaned, and ate food during play while taking notes about how the saxes worked. Here's what we found:

Here are side-by-side comparison of what happened inside the saxophones.

Mold, fungus, yeast and bacteria grew inside the High Palm Key tone hole chimneys - radically less with Key Leaves care.

The low Eb saxophone key gets sticky pad rot, the leather hardens and eventually leaks. Not so with daily Key Leaves care.

The entire saxophone body tube becomes unhealthy! Here is a photo of upside down saxophone necks to show how much mold and gunk is growing in the sax that didn't use Key Leaves care.

Here is a photo of the saxophone bell bow. The sax that didn't use Key Leaves care became more sticky and coated in lint and mold.

This field test showed that using Key Leaves care products, even without swab cleaning, resulted in 98% fewer stuck saxophone pads! Results are even better when used as directed with swab cleaning. 

We also made a time-lapse video of saxophone leather pad rot!

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