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Sluggish C# on Bass

Author: Erez Katz
Date: 2025-11-01 00:23

Hi.
How would you recommend cleaning this pad?

https://youtube.com/shorts/EkbtQ0xKj80

Thanks,
Erez

Post Edited (2025-11-01 01:07)

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Re: Sluggish C# on Bass

Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-11-01 01:29

Remove the keys, clean the pad AND the tonehole with alcohol and beef up the spring on the pad cup so it's less likely to stick.

Far too many people set the articulated C#/G# pad cup spring way too light, but it can have more tension in it that will ensure it opens the key instead of just tickles it into moving and flapping about like a bit of wet lettuce.

Same with saxes. Put some life into articulated mechanisms as they always have to work.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

Independent Woodwind Repairer
Single and Double Reed Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes

NOT A MEMBER OF N.A.M.I.R.

The opinions I express are my own.

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Re: Sluggish C# on Bass

Author: Erez Katz
Date: 2025-11-01 05:30

Chris to the rescue - as always!

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