The author prefers to use two record-cleaning devices -- one to brush off heavier concentrations of debris before the tone arm is lowered onto the disc, and the other to keep the surface clean as the record plays. A number of commercially available products will serve the first purpose satisfactorily, as will a pad made of two circles of velvet fabric sewn together around some cotton stuffing. If the record is cleaned on a rotating turntable, the pad can be held almost stationary and used to guide the dust toward the center or outer edge. The second device consists of a nylon-bristle brush and a plush-pile cylinder on an arm usually mounted on the opposite side of the platter from the tone arm. A vendor is given. Manufacturer's instructions should be carefully followed.