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Re: Cork vs. Bladder pads

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-08-27 07:39

I've repadded both B&H 1010 and Selmer Centered Tone clarinets with cork pads (and leather for the large pads on the bottom joint), the smaller pads are 9mm and around 11-11.5mm for the rings, cross F# key (and Acton vent) on the bottom joint - on Selmers the top joint side Eb/Bb tonehole is 6mm, though the crown of the bedplace is probably around 7mm so there is still plenty of pad surface left to seat on them with misaligned pad cups. But the bedplaces have to be absolutely perfect in order to achieve a perfect seal.

I've cork padded the top joint on a Leblanc basset horn, and even fitted cork pads right down to the Ab/Eb key on Leblanc LL and Concertos - these are around 13.5-14mm. The largest size cork pads I've used are 15.5mm on oboe bells for oboes that are completely cork padded, and have seen Loree bass oboes entirely cork padded as well - Buffet basses have a 16mm cork pad in the top fingerplate, so it is possible to get cork pads up to this diameter.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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