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Author: tb0b
Date: 2000-12-11 22:38
is cigarette paper really the best for absorbing moisture in the pads? Why? Is there any thing better (like the paper made especially for musical instruments)?
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Author: Yusuf Zaid
Date: 2000-12-11 22:46
From Yusuf
I find it works very well, nice quality paper, soaks up the moisture without damaging your pads and is dirt cheap.
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Author: Pam
Date: 2000-12-11 23:34
A dollar bill works well too and is readily available.
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Author: Rob
Date: 2000-12-11 23:43
Dollar bills (unless your are as anal-retentive as I am and you wash and iron your paper money - use the delicate cycle) are some of the most filthy things you will ever touch. I wouldn't use one. They may have God-knows-what kinds of bacteria or fungus on them just waiting for a warm and wet environment like the inside of a warmed-up clarinet or clarinet case. I use cigaette paper. Make sure you buy a brand with no adhesive on it.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-12-12 02:25
Rob is right on here. A research study done in Houston last summer found some really nasty germs, fungi and stuff on every day things we don't think about like paper money, cafe tables, pay phones, etc. I'm a lot more careful now after seing their research results on TV.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2000-12-12 07:57
I've used dollar bills for years. I may be too ignorant or just plain ornery but I've never gotten sick from doing it. I'm a lot more fussy about my mouthpiece than I am about soggy pads.
ron b
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Author: Mark Gustavson
Date: 2000-12-12 14:27
A few weeks ago someone on the klarinet list mentioned using coffee filters. Cut them down to 1" square. I tried it and they are superior. I have recommended this to all my fellow wind players and they have had the same opinion.
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Author: jerry
Date: 2000-12-12 22:10
"...coffee filters."
Before or after using them to make coffee? SORRY! Just couldn't pass up a chance at a little levity here.
~ jerry
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Author: Yusuf Zaid
Date: 2000-12-12 22:26
....coffee filters..
AFTER using them to make coffee of course....aah, the flavour!
More levity.
Yusuf
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-12-12 23:07
If I had to play the Weber Concertino, maybe the clarinet could use some black coffee on the pads. Maybe soak the reed in Jolt Cola, too....
;-)
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Author: William
Date: 2000-12-13 00:39
Toilet paper is absorbant..........and consider the joke potential. Seruiously, however, IMHO cigarette paper is probably the best choice Good luck.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-12-13 04:13
My wife likes to use those papers that gals use with hair curlers. She uses them for drying and for cleaning the pads on her flute. She says they don't tear as easily as cigarette paper when wet.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2000-12-13 10:58
Somebody suggested Shiseido papers used with cosmetics, But what a price! Probably the same as the coffee filter papers.
Now I know how the brown stains get on the pads!!! And I thought it was from the timber.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-12-14 02:39
Why don't try end sheet(paper?) sold at cosmetic shop.
There are two kinds. One inclludes cosmetics. Another(far cheaper one) does not.
In Japan it is called oil absorbent sheet and sold at about 2.5$ per 150 sheets.
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