Klarinet Archive - Posting 000397.txt from 2003/09

From: "Vic Brincat" <vbrincat@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pads deteriorating quickly..more info
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:51:21 -0400

A couple of more piece of information that I should have included:

I regualrly oil the bore of my clarinets with the correct bore oil. (Once a
month).

On one (an A Buffet), I used leather pads. The pads themselves seal quite
well, but I noticed that there a distint brown ring around the spot that
contacts the tone whole openings.

Just a thought: could it be that the bore oil is finding it's way to the
pads? Could this make the fish-skin pads go brittle and leaving the brown
ring on the leather pads?

Vic Brincat
vicbrincat@-----.com, AOL Instant Messenger ID: vicbrincat58, Yahoo!
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>From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Pads deteriorating quickly
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:28:11 -0400
>
>In a message dated 9/15/2003 9:15:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>vbrincat@-----.com writes:
>
> > I have recently replaced the pads in several of my clarinets. (As
>recently
> > as 5 months ago). The clarinets were cleaned, oiled and polished when
>the
> > new pads were done.
> >
> > Many of the pads have already turned brown and even appear to have
>become
> > somewhat brittle. Some make a "crinkling" noise when they
> > close…obvious sign of them breaking down.>>
>
>Vic, there's some bad pads floating around out there. A student of mine
>brought in his brand new A clarinet, purchased a few weeks earlier, for me
>to look at before he went off to school.
>
>I replaced two pads. They were as you described, brown, dry, and crinkly.
>Worse than the appearance, was the fact that they really did not "grasp"
>the feeler guage I use, the horn played "wolfy". I replaced them with some
>(I believe) Glotin pads I purchased from Allied and things were a lot
>better.
>
>Also, I had a young man bring in his Bufet E-11 for some work. The clarinet
>looked almost brand new, couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 years old. It
>was immculate, he takes good care of his horn. But, I wound up replacing
>every damn pad, they were falling apart!
>
>Now, I have some pads on my A clarinet that are 20 years old. I don't get
>it.
>
>Walter Grabner
>www.clarinetxpress
>
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