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Re: clarinet pad sizes and alto sax price estimate

Author: ron b
Date: 2006-01-28 18:38

All of the previous advice given so far is very good, Clarnibasss. I would recommend additionally that you practice, initially, by using only one kind of pad. For example: learn to install, impeccably, double skin pads on regular clarinets. If I've overlooked someone else's suggestion I apologize. Then do the same with leather... etc. It's difficult enough getting one kind "just right" without breaking your concentration with different kinds of approaches/thinking. Some folks like to keep a notebook of progress, tips, mistakes, successes. Some don't -- just remembered that, but whatever works best for You is the way to go.

At least for me anyway, *one thing at a time* works far better than trying to "master" several things at once. Get one thing down right and the next challenges will be progressively easier... I guarantee it!

Otherwise, I think you are on the right track. I would look for a sax that's in decent enough shape that, when you're finished with it, you can sell it for enough to get your money back as well as pay for the materials you've put into it. Find something that needs all new pads, perhaps a few springs, but NOT with keys and mechanism "falling apart". You want encouragements, not disappointments.

- r [cool]