Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-04-26 07:02
I also play an Eaton International clarinet. At the time I bought it I didn't know much about it, and they only had one in stock (at WW&BW) but I tried it and imediately loved its sound. Even the International model, which is the small bore model, has a bigger bore than the common French clarinets like Buffet, Selmer, etc.
My question for Eaton players is, what pads do you have on your clarinet? Mine came with the dark and soft, spunge-like pads. I also bought from Eaton a set of their leather pads but haven't changed to them yet. Eaton also makes their own pads now but he told me they only have them for new instruments and they can't make them for older ones.
The pads I have I think are transition pads. What I mean is they stopped getting the Superpads for their clarinets, and I think before they started making their own new resonator pads they used these instead of leather. Is it possible changing the pads would also change the sound enough to be able to tell? I like the feel of the leather pads more, since the spunge pads are very soft and feel a little weird but I really don't want anything to change in the sound.
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