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Re: clarinet pad sizes and alto sax price estimate

Author: stevensfo
Date: 2006-01-28 20:16

-- "I think experimenting on instrument repair could be fascinating. But the cost of the tools necessary to do a good job can be prohibitive. Or so I've heard." --

The most important tools are:

A set of those very small screwdrivers that almost every hardware store is selling for peanuts.

Q-tips/cotton buds for cleaning in and around tone holes.

Toothpicks for those inaccessible places.

A pair of cheap tweezers for positioning the pad.

A tube of micro cement, glue stick/hot gun for gluing the pad.

A BIC cigarette lighter for heating the pad to remove the old pad/reposition the new pad.

Steve

PS Those screwdrivers are pretty good for pushing the springs back into place as well.

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