Article: To start, choose a mild cleaner. As you want to keep antique furniture as damage-free as possible, harsh chemicals are a bad idea. A mild dish soap diluted in water is a safe choice for most antiques. Use dish soap intended for hand washing dishes. Soap that you would use in a dishwasher is more acidic.  If dish soap is not successfully removing grime, it's okay to opt for a slightly stronger cleaner. Something like Murphy's Oil would work, but use only a small amount. You should not use an abundance of oily products on older furniture.  Some experts feel furniture paste wax, which you can find at most hardware stores or department stores, is a better option for cleaning antiques than oil. To start, wet a rag with a light amount of your chosen cleaner. Gently rub down the surface of the furniture. Keep wiping the surface with the same rag until the rag no longer picks up new dirt or debris.  Avoid scrubbing, as this can damage the finish of old furniture. Use gentle wiping motions instead.  Move the rag in the direction of the grain of the wood. Some areas may have stuck on stains or grime. You can use steel wool to remove these stains as long as you use #0000 wool and work at the stains using gentle motions.  Rub in the direction of the wood grain. Keep rubbing until the unwanted dirt and debris is gone. Make sure not to use too much force. This can damage the finish. Some areas in the furniture, like corners or curves, may be hard to reach with a rag. For these areas, use a toothbrush. Dip a toothbrush in your cleaning solution. Following the grain, scrub down hard-to-reach areas until dirt and grime is gone. Once you're finished cleaning, you can wipe down the furniture with a dry rag. Use gentle motions to sop up most of the liquid until the furniture is relatively dry to the touch. Allow the furniture to air dry a bit before continuing with the cleaning process. Once the furniture is dry, add a layer of polish. This will make the finish glow and give the furniture a nice look. To polish, simply take a clean cloth and buff the furniture until it glows. Furniture polishes, especially silicone-based polishes, are best avoided on antiques.
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Choose a mild cleaner. Rub the surface down with a soft cloth and your chosen cleaner. Remove stuck on stains with steel wool. Use a toothbrush in hard-to-reach places. Wipe down the furniture and allow it to dry. Polish the furniture when finished.
Article: Lots of sounds can be distracting at work and grab your attention. If sounds keep you from staying focused, consider wearing headphones. You might listen to music to help you stay on task or use noise canceling headphones. If you choose to listen to music, don’t play songs you want to sing along to or that pull your attention away from your tasks. Instead, stick to instrumental music without lyrics. If you listen to music at work, don’t plug your headphones in all day. You might be perceived as rude or miss some important interactions. Some people feel more accomplished when they work on several tasks at once. However, multitasking can decrease your productivity. Stopping and starting tasks can take away time and energy that could better be spent focused on one task. When completing tasks, do one at a time and don’t start another one until the first is completed. If you feel like you want to start another task, take a break instead. If you use distractions as a way to avoid something, you might have symptoms of anxiety. Maybe you have a big deadline coming up and instead of working toward it, you avoid the stress by distracting yourself. Think of your solutions and how to remain productive despite feeling anxious.  Use calm breathing to help yourself feel more in control and less anxious. If you feel anxious or nervous about something, talk back to your fears rationally. Ask yourself, “Can I complete this in the time I have? Am I blowing this out of proportion?” Keep in mind that resisting the task will make it much harder to do than if you engage with it. Try to immerse yourself in the task and you will finish it much faster and with less of a struggle.
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Use headphones. Give up multitasking. Cope with feelings of anxiety.
Article: Letting air out of your ocarina through points other than the sound hole will affect the pitch of the whistle. A controlled way to do this is to lift the four fingers on your right hand up and down, mimicking the motions a flute player would make. Lift a maximum of two fingers at once — the more ways there are for air to escape, the harder it is to get pitches. Note that this is difficult to do without causing your whistle to turn into an undesirable "rushing air" noise. You'll need to keep a good seal between your hands, lift your finger only slightly, and support the note with plenty of air. It can take as long to learn how to do this as it takes to learn how to make the whistle in the first place. The pitch you hear when you get a whistle out of a hand ocarina is the air between your hands vibrating. Creating a bigger or smaller space by changing the shape of your hands will let more or less air in, affecting the pitch. Just be careful to keep a tight seal between your hands so air can't leak out.  Making a bigger space (moving your hands apart) will produce a lower-pitched sound. Making a smaller space (moving your hands together) will produce a higher-pitched sound. Changing the way you blow can also change the pitch of the note your ocarina makes. Try making a smaller "o" with your lips for a higher pitch or a larger "o" for a lower pitch. Experienced harmonica players use a technique called a "draw bend" to change notes' pitches. You can get a similar effect by pulling your tongue to the back of your mouth as you blow to "bend" the tone of your note downwards. This takes practice!
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Try lifting your right hand fingers. Try changing the space between your hands. Try altering the posture of your lips.