My flute has dots on it...?

This must be the week for flute tarnish questions! There are a few things that might be happening - but LACQUER wearing off is NOT one of them - flutes so NOT have lacquer ( unless they are those really cheap colored Chinese ones - ick.) You band teacher must be either a sax player or a brass player! If you flute is SILVER ( or silver-plated) then you can use a silver polishing cloth - you can get them at a jeweler's, if not at a music store The WHITE powder kinds are less rough on the flute finish than the red ones. If you are VERY careful, you can also use Tarnex - one of those *silver dip* polishes that SMELL so bad - on a Q-tip, BARELY wet. NEVER EVER EVER use paste silver polish - and I HATE the idea of toothpaste, although someone here likes that. Any abrasives in the polish WILL get into the mechanism over time - and then you have a dead flute.

If your flute is nickel-plated, you can use Cape Cod polish towelettes, or MAAS towelettes - NOT MAAS in the tube!

Of COURSE you do not need a new flute - unless there are things seriously wrong with it, or you have progressed beyond it - or IF YOU USE THE WRONG POLISH TO CLEAN IT!!! Good luck!

I played flute for a while and the same thing happened. Like your band director said wipe off your flute after you play it. Sweat and dirt from your hands can wear away the outer coating of the flute.

You should polish the flute.

Get a new flute.

lol i wud av sed that there the holes where you put fingers in LOL

only jokin u shud by KLEENEX

wtf mate