Home / Forums / Melodica construction, repair and maintenance / Clean your melodica or face the consequences! / Reply To: Clean your melodica or face the consequences! Reply To: Clean your melodica or face the consequences! August 23, 2016 at 10:15 pm #7548 Robert TerryParticipant Easy of cleaning should be an important goal of any modern melodica design team. Why wood I try a piccolo that has layers of dried crud around the embouchure hole was the question my eyes asked the lazy shopkeeper.