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Re: Due maintenance!

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-05-11 23:43

Mark wrote, "In my workshop I every second instrument that comes through has pad damage or gunge built up that is caused by sugary drinks."

Personally I think this is a much over-worked explanation. There is no sugar in moist air from lungs. Even if a player DOES blow some saliva into the instrument, there are very few pads that it will contact.

There are many other reasons for sticking pads. including (amongst many) the waterproof treatment of some leather pads, black timber treatment, and pads being too large in diameter and jamming against the body of the instrument outside the tone hole itself.

We have the plastic bank notes in NZ as well.

If the timber has shrunk, and the keys were a good fit between the posts, then loosening screws will do nothing.

I agree, give the technician a chance to look at it.

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