Klarinet Archive - Posting 001134.txt from 1998/04

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Re: Pad Preferences
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:55:36 -0400

Whilst we spend our days wallowing in technologically backward materials
like leather, cork and (my favorite) sheep intestine stretched over
felt, the chemical engineers of the world have come up with a great
solution.

If you folks don't have Valentino pads, try them!! They are plastic
(really a sort of foam with a somewhat hardened surface towards the tone
hole). Albert Alphin in Boston put one on my Eb/Ab key about 20 years
ago; when I had the horn overhauled 10 years later, my repair person
refused to touch it because it still sealed better than anything he
could put on.

These things are GREAT. They ALWAYS seal, never leak, repel water,
last forever and ARE TOTALLY SILENT.

Best of all for you teachers out there, you need not limit their use to
great repair people--you can buy a kit (throught WEW & BW, of course)
and do it yourself! It's like a new-style postage stamp--peel the back
and squish it into the pad cup, done.

Lest Bill and the other repair folks despair, I have a repair tech do my
own horns to ensure perfect seating, etc. For the odd Bundy throwing up
pads, though, the teacher kit is also wonderful.

kjf

----Original Message Follows----
From: C E Field <CEField@-----.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:21:35 EDT
Subject: Re: Re: Pad Preferences

Amy, I have cork pads on my register key as well as Eb sliver, G#/C#,
and Bb
trill keys. I also carry cigarette papers around with me. That's another
trick
I learned from my oboist friend.

Cindy

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