Home / Forums / Melodica construction, repair and maintenance / Melodica Tracheotomy / Reply To: Melodica Tracheotomy Reply To: Melodica Tracheotomy June 25, 2015 at 5:13 pm #5525 Marta VogelParticipant Did you remove the black piece, the spit valve, completely forever, or just for purposes of showing the part of the white case you removed?