Klarinet Archive - Posting 001072.txt from 1998/04

From: "Brian Catchlove" <bcatch@-----.au>
Subj: Re: Pad Preferences
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:38:21 -0400

Dear Cindy,
I am unsure what "kid" leather is. However, on my previous clarinet(R13),
which I replaced 5 years ago after many years good service, I have leather
pads. These were made and installed by a clarinet and oboe maker near
Adelaide (South Australia) in 1986(?). They were a revelation to me at the
time and I still remember my clarinet responding like it never had before.
The seal is still very good even though it now only gets played when my new
instrument is being repaired. Many of these pads have been on since the
original repadding.

I just looked up "kid" in the Dict. I don't know what leather my pads are
made from but they are a light brown color,( tan maybe).

Brian Catchlove

-----Original Message-----
From: C E Field <CEField@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, 18 April 1998 7:39am
Subject: Pad Preferences

>Has anyone had experience with kid leather pads on Bb soprano clarinets? I
am
>accustomed to using the traditional double-skin pads but a professional
>clarinetist friend says the leather pads on his Selmer are about 50 years
old
>and still doing the job.
>
>Cindy
>