Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2004/08

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ferengiz=E2de_dani=EAl_shawqy?= <rab@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] white leather pads (re: [kl] Silva-Bet pads with bolts)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 08:57:42 -0400

White kid-leather pads are of cause standard on German and Austrian
clarinets as well as authentic "Albert" types. They are made by various
firms in Europe, most notably Pisoni of Italy. Any decent European supplier
carries various brands and all kinds of sizes/thicknesses. They can be had
plain or impregnated. As "fishskin" is allegedly actually pig bladder, I
wouldn't even touch it even though it appears that Iwan Mueller invented and
endorsed bladder pads.
My restorer has made some extra thin pads for my old Moennig alto clar. by
removing the felt from inside a Pisoni-pad and replacing it with extra thin
high grade white felt. Works super. Other antique instruments I have came
with bulging pads (like finger tips) on some of the large lower section tone
holes. We have also tried to reconstruct those by filling the pad with more
fluffy felt-material. Some times the leather cover was centrally stitched on
the cardboard base like a button. Not a long way to adding a resonator
though I have never seen that, not even on lower clarinets.
best wishes,
danyel
(Frankfurt/Germany)

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hausmann
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Silva-Bet pads with bolts

My Carl Fisher A clarinet with the wrap-around register key was padded with
white leather pads when I originally got it, as was my Conn C-Melody
sax. I think white leather pads are still available, although you may have
to look around some. If not original, they certainly qualify as "period."

Bill Hausmann

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