Klarinet Archive - Posting 000743.txt from 1999/08

From: gtg <gtgallant@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Leather clarinet pads
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:19 -0400

<<Would this resistance and stuffiness be due to the
leather pads
themselves or
the way they were put in?>>

I've tried leather pads on my R-13 recently and did
not like the result. With correct pad heights, the
sound tended to be a bit duller and less flexible than
with skin pads. Seating the leather pads was easy. The
pads were also mushy feeling and didn't give a crisp
key closing. Leather is also too porous to give an
air tight seal (even after treatment with wax,
silicon, etc).
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