Klarinet Archive - Posting 001006.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cheap re-pads
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:22:49 -0400

At 02:30 PM 7/28/2004 -0400, Walter Grabner wrote:
>In a message dated 7/28/2004 12:56:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
>kwolman@-----.com writes:
>Repads run from $110 or so up. That will usually cure whatever ails the
> > typical horn.
>Beware of cheap "re-pads". Recently I had a customer send me a clarinet that
>he swore was re-padded recently. I actually thought he had been cheated at
>the store, the pads looked like they had been through WWII (and maybe
>VietNam).
>The clarinet still needed work, something were just not right, so I agreed
>to work on it.
>
>Well, it turns out the pads were new. But the clarinet (over 40 years old,
>used by several generations, and never overhauled) was extremely dirty.
>There
>was gunk in the toneholes and under all the keys. The oil in the keys was
>thick and black and gritty.
>
>Obviously, someone had slapped on a new set of pads, never cleaned anything,
>and in the process go dirt all over the pads. The job looked like hell, and
>the clarinet played like hell.
>
>LOL. It's making me mad all over again that the shop took this guys money
>and left the horn so filthy!

That would not happen at the place where I work (correction: where I USED
TO work :-) ). A repad there includes all that cleaning, an oil treatment
if needed, hand polishing the keys, etc. If it needs much beyond that it
might cost a little more than the basic $110, but the instrument will not
leave the shop in anything less than tip-top shape! And satisfaction is
guaranteed or it is fixed free.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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